Solitude (2013 - 2018)
““Let my solitude not destroy me. Let my solitude keep me company. Give me the courage to face myself. Let me know how to be left with the nothing and feel nonetheless as if I were filled with everything" (1)."(1).
(1) LISPECTOR, Clarice (Brazilian writer). A breath of life, p. 152. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1999.
In modernity, everything is open and shared. The private is the stage for exposure on social networks. We are watched by technologies that do not allow us any intimacy. Enjoying silence and privacy becomes increasingly rare.
Solitude consists of natural elements and textures photographs that join self-portraits in search for the scarce and stillness. The work refers to the state of voluntary isolation, proposing a reflection on the courage to be alone in pursuit for a personal identity. The gestures and poses in the images refer to the anxieties and uncertainties of this search.
Technical file: 18 pictures, different dimensions, printed with mineral pigments on cotton paper.
At the social media era, the personal exposure has been more and more unreasonable and with no limits. We suffer from a generalized lack that has been changing daily life on a real show. “Solitude” is composed by 12 pictures, produced by the merge of images from self-portraits and textures. The title “Solitude” refers to the privacy and voluntary isolation of a person; it is to be with itself. In this job I try to express the search for a personal identity on a society that is oppressed by social media. The images used at the self-portraits refer to the anguishes and uncertainties on this search. Choosing the merge of self-portraits with natural textures is a reference to the natural stage, to come back to a calmer age, less technological and less standardized. On this search for an identity, returning to the nature where we came from, showing that despite of all the technology, at the end of the day we are still animals.
Technical file: 18 pictures, different dimensions, printed with mineral pigments on cotton paper.
“(…) solitude keep me company. Give me the courage to face myself. Let me know how to be left with the nothing and feel nonetheless as if I were filled with everything" (1).” (Clarice Lispector).