TITLE: ADHERENCES AND INDELIBLE SIGNS
This project takes source from my own life experience.
The images are created by composing photographs of the scars on my body due to as many surgeries and photographs of places from my past, a dreamlike journey back in time remembering the events and places that have made me who I am.
All the pictures, both those of the scars and those of the landscapes, are mine, carefully choosing each landscape image to join it to a specific scar.
The photographs merge to create a new reality where the pain fades away leaving space for a new ethereal and evocative image becoming a polyphonic project that extends and involves other people with a similar path to mine.
The poet Rumi said that ‘the wound is the place where light enters’.
It is a similar approach to Kintsugi, the Japanese restoration technique of repairing shattered ceramics by embellishing them with gold dusting. The breaks and repairs are part of the object’s history and are enhanced rather than hidden. Its fragility is revealed and at the same time its strength to resist.
AUTHOR: sandra paul (Italy)
Sandra Paul was born (1974) and raised in France (Arles) and then moved to Italy.
Her eyes focuses on moments, lived with intensity, that she wants to capture and keep preserved through the photography in a sensory and instinctive world. Initially self-taugh, she enriched her photographic knowledge by participating in courses and workshops over the last few years.
Exhibitions: Since 2016 she has participated in several collective exhibitions: at the Tevere Art Gallery in Rome ( 2016 - 2019) curated by Luciano Corvaglia ; at the Voies off festival in Arles ( 2017-2019). Also finalist of the TAG Awards in Rome (2018), and in the former Dominican Convent of Muro Leccese in 2018.
2019: in Paris with Street Sans Frontières, at the month of photography in Rome, Convergenze Expo in Rome, in a collective exhibition at the Plaza Hotel in Rome with a project presented to the Italian Senate on women's breast cancer prevention month, ExtraOrdinario curated by Stefano Mirabella and Sergio Casella in the Fotosciamanna Laboratory.
2020: finalist at the Siena International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention winner at the Prix de la Photographie Paris, TAL congregation about Street Photography in Rome, she has also participated at the WEFO in a collective exhibition at the Crocetti Museum in Rome organized by the onlus Dignity No Profit People, Convergenze Expo, at the Darkroom Project n°7 and n° 8 in two prestigious location organized by the Tevere Art Gallery with the sponsorship of the Lazio Region.
2023: in New York and Paris with ImageNation curated by Martin Vegas, in Milan at the exhibition Your Roots curated by Perimetro, and in Rome at the Galeria AlbumArte under the patronage of the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Roma, at TAG for Mostro 16 and 17 curated by L. Corvaglia and during Rome Art Week. She received an honourable mention at the Monovisions Awards in the Single Photo Conceptual category, at Paris Photo, at Bifa for the project ADHERENCES ET SIGNES INDELEBILES and 2 mentions at the Tokyo Awards in the Fine Art Nude and Nature categories.
Her photos have also appeared in PhotoVogue Online.
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