Clothing

For the work on paper, Clothing, Caloro photographed the various jeans worn by six people, subsequently having each pair of jeans processed into a different piece of handmade paper, upon which in turn he printed the photograph of the corresponding jeans. He then supplemented each with a chromatogram of the gene MC1R, which contains the genetic information of the six jeans-wearers in terms of how they react to ultraviolet light, a factor that determines skin color and pigmentation. As an indicator of the personal characteristic features, the scientific complexity of the DNA is juxtaposed here with the jeans. With this work, Caloro has created portraits, which provide extremely precise information about the respective persons despite the fact that they are absent - it is an abstract representation of human individuals.