The “Piero” series is a contemporary homage to the painter Piero della Francesca. It features a female figure enclosed in heavy antique frames, performing religious archetypes of femininity: a holy mother, a pure-hearted maiden, a serpent wielding a thousand spells.
With just a few irreverent strokes of acrylic paint, Carlos Lorca disrupts the solemn authority of his analogue photographs, empowering them with iconoclastic playfulness and joie de vivre.