I am interested in aspects of human nature that I cannot understand or fully grasp,that don’t belong to me or to which I do not belong. Faith, being one of the great, ifnot, the greatest mystery of an individual imagination is, at the same time, an apex ofcollective identity.
Based on a desire to understand something that I cannot intuitively find tangible, I’vemade use of photography as a consistent means to be present and delve into variousreligious communities. What I found, what attracted me, was not just the differencesin rituals, practises, cultures, iconographies, and even languages, but instead whatwas indeed shared and common to all. Thus, the choice to not centre the narrativearound portraits that revealed the identity of each believer, but instead to representthe ethereal and oneiric, and in the end, the universal.
My understanding of faith not as a common belief but ultimately as a commonhuman need, as a horizontal element, not individualizing the name that each of themmay claim, relates to the conclusion that each religious belief system is but a differentattempt to offer or unveil an answer to a common and universal question.
Fractal, being an element of the field of mathematics, is a geometric figure found innature and which is composed of an object whose separate parts repeat the featuresof the complete whole, representing the original entity. In truth, I find myself muchfurther away from each one of them than they are from each other. Deep down, itrepresents a foreign gaze onto an intimacy in which I do not participate.
