Monography

For twenty years, Isabel Muñoz, a central figure in Spanish photography, has been traveling the world to shape the movements and bodies she encounters or chooses. From tango to flamenco, from oriental dance to Khmer ballet, from the great masters of martial arts in China to the wrestlers of Turkey, she takes the authentic practices of dance or traditional sports as a pretext to tell us about the situation of the body in society. Claiming, in frames of rare precision, sensuality, pleasure, desire, she contrasts them, in fact, to the current confinement of normalized, restrained, bullied bodies. Thus she proposes, passing through Cuba or Africa, a geography of bodies, which always brings her back to classical or contemporary ballets in Madrid, which she caresses with a gaze as loving as it is rigorous. She builds, by taking care of the smallest detail of the print, an already classical work, both pure and erotic, praising a freedom symbolized by bodies capable of escaping the contingent heaviness and earthly attraction.