{"id":14449,"date":"2025-04-28T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pictofoundation.fr\/finalistes-prix-picto-de-la-mode-2025-igor-pjo%cc%88rrt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:22:10","slug":"finalistes-prix-picto-de-la-mode-2025-igor-pjo%cc%88rrt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pictofoundation.fr\/en\/finalistes-prix-picto-de-la-mode-2025-igor-pjo%cc%88rrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists – Prix Picto de la Mode 2025 : Igor Pjo\u0308rrt"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Igor Pj\u00f6rrt, a visual artist based in Paris, explores masculinity, desire, and identity through an intimate photographic practice. Influenced by his childhood on the island of Madeira, his work navigates between distance and emotion, searching for the tenderness often lost in rites of passage. His series \u201cGuide\u201d features young men wandering along twilight beaches, where the horizon becomes an internal mirror. These images, bathed in light and sensuality, question the representation of masculinity in adolescence while seeking to transcend invisible boundaries of desire and intimacy.
\n<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Biography” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Born in Madeira in 1996, Igor Pj\u00f6rrt<\/strong> is a visual artist based in Paris. His work explores the complex nuances of masculinity and intimacy. Influenced by his childhood on an island, his images delve into notions of time and distance, while echoing the subtleties of identity and the desire to transcend it. During his adolescence, photography became a tool for introspective escape. He developed a visceral visual language, rich in color and imbued with a certain sensuality. His compositions often evoke a maritime atmosphere, frequently described as twilight-like. By using autofiction as a photographic genre, Igor Pj\u00f6rrt explores the scope of what he calls \u201cconfessional photography.\u201d
\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Guide” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]\u201cGrowing up involves negotiating inner truths with the world.\u201d
\nThe series \u201cGuide\u201d portrays young men wandering along beaches at twilight. It is within these ephemeral landscapes\u2014fundamentally liminal spaces \u2014 that things become intangible and desire emerges.
\nThe horizon, though omnipresent, becomes an internal element, marking a revealing divide for these characters. This feeling is tied to the experience of growing up on an island, a place where one is naturally inclined to look outward.
\nSomething Uranian inhabits this impulse in the images of \u201cGuide\u201d\u2014not in a quest for belonging, but in an attempt to transgress an invisible boundary.
\nThrough these representations of masculinity, the subjects find moments of contemplative stillness amid the turbulence of youth, revealing a tenderness often lost in the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood.[\/vc_column_text]\n

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