Christian Boaro's 'The Naked Truth': 300 Polaroids at PlasMa

Christian Boaro presents 'The Naked Truth', a photographic project featuring 300 Polaroid portraits, at PlasMa, the exhibition space of Plastic nightclub in Milan. The series explores beauty, sexuality, and emotion through real people—not models—met during his travels as a designer, in Milan's clubbing scene, or via social media. Boaro deliberately includes albino, Asian, and Black subjects regardless of sexuality to challenge anachronistic racism. The exhibition employs different Polaroid films and lighting to create a journey that juxtaposes cults like that of goddess Oshun with Catholic symbolism, including a postmodern Genesis where Adam and Eve are portrayed by a gay man and a trans woman. Seventy portraits dominate the main space, with cropped heads but always visible hands, which Boaro considers communicative of naturalness and sensuality. He also highlights a series of back portraits, discovered by chance. The installation incorporates requiem music and warmth to disorient viewers. Boaro cites influences from Mapplethorpe, Warhol, and Caravaggio. The show runs at PlasMa (Plastic, Milan).