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Humanæ; About A Work In Progress

Humanæ is a chromatic inventory, a project that reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme.

(PANTONE® Guides are one of the main classification systems of colors, which are represented by an alphanumeric code, allowing to accurately recreate any of them in any media. It is a technical industrial standard often called Real Color)

The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11×11 pixels of the portrayed´s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.

Humanæ it’s a pursuit for highlighting our subtle-continuous of our tones that make more equality than difference… our true colors, rather than the untrue Red and Yellow, Black and White. It is a kind of game for subverting our codes. The audience is free to read into it. The ultimate goal is to provoke and bring currently using internet as a discussion platform on ethnic identity, creating images that lead us to match us independent from factors such as nationality, origin, economic status, age or aesthetic standards.

(All the portrayed are volunteers, people who approach to the project, visit the space in which I am portraying and decide to participate on their own by a Internet call on theFacebook page, onTumblr , using public spaces in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Chicago)

Angelica Dass (Rio de Janeiro, 1979)

Angélica raises her work as a tool of exploration, questioning and search for identity, their own and others and understands the photography like a dialogue, like a game which the personal and social codes are put at stake to be reinvented, a continuous circulate and flow between the photographer and the/the photographed, a bridge between masks and identities.

She is graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She completed a Master in Photography (Concept and Creation) at EFTI School of Photograph, in Madrid. Her portrait sessions have been held in spaces so renowned as Museo del Traje – CIPE, in Madrid; the Festival of Contemporary Culture ROJO/NOVA, in Barcelona; Cercle des Délégués – UNESCO and Projection Logbook in Picturetank, Paris; and at Max Estrella Gallery booth in ExpoChicago, USA. Her work was shown in international art fairs as ArtBo, in Colombia, ExpoChicago, in USA and ARCO in Spain. Her project Humanæ has participated recently in the Alwan 338 outdoor art Festival, in the Al – Riwaq Art space, Adliya, Bahrain. Her new project, Cabello, cabellera, cabelluda, descabellada was a finalist for the 19 ° FotoPres grant – LaCaixa. Her work forms part of the Collection Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson.

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Humanae é un inventário cromático, um projeto que reflete sobre as cores além das fronteiras de nossos códigos, usando como referência o sistema de cores PANTONE ®

(As guias PANTONE ® são um dos principais sistemas de classificação de cores que é representado por um código alfanumérico, que permite recriar com precisão em qualquer cor em qualquer suporte. É um padrão técnico industrial freqüentemente chamado de Cor Real)

O desenvolvimento do projeto es realizar uma série de retratos, cujo fundo é tingido no tom exato extraído de uma amostra de 11×11 pixels do próprio rosto das pessoas retratadas. O objetivo final é registrar e catálogar, através de uma medição científica, todos os possíveis tons de pele humana.


Humanae es un inventario cromático: un proyecto que reflexiona sobre los colores más allá de las fronteras de nuestros códigos usando como referencia el sistema de color PANTONE®

(Las Guías PANTONE® son uno de los principales sistemas de clasificación de colores, que los representa mediante un código alfanumérico, permitiendo recrearlos de manera exacta en cualquier soporte. Es un estándar técnico industrial que a menudo se denomina Color Real)

El desarrollo del proyecto consiste en la realización de una serie de retratos cuyo fondo se tiñe del tono exacto extraído a partir de una muestra de 11×11 pixeles del propio rostro de las personas retratadas. El objetivo final del proyecto es registrar y catalogar, mediante una medición científica, todos los posibles tonos humanos de piel.

The Humanæ project is copyrighted. It is shared with permission or license from the Artist. We thank Angelica Dass for allowing us to learn from her endeavors.

See Also The Exhibition. Humanae; A Work In Progress and Humanae; A Work In Progress. The Gallery