A PARALLEL WORLD
Silver gelatine and digital print
2010 - 2021
We come upon a part of the visible which wasn’t destined for us.
Our customary visible order is not the only one: it co-exists with other orders.
Why Look at Animals?
John Berger
This work, A Parallel World, was born many years ago, in 2009, following my passion for museums and cataloguing that my father passed on to me as a child and fascinated me.
I used to take pictures as I felt inside: closed inside a display case, distant, far away, not alive, with no interaction with the outside world, like the glass that divides us from things; but inside this case there is a world visible to few. An anomalous point of view that allowed me a frontal gaze. It was an encounter with life. And I was there. I could document it. This is what I photographed.
A parallel world developed and in 2019 it became a book project. The animals came out of the cases and I with them. This is the reportage of a race, of a glimpse of liberation and freedom, of an existence.
