A home with no roof
by Sara De Brito Faustino
Sara De Brito Faustino graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in photography from ECAL. She lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over the course of eleven years of practicing the medium of photography, she has developed her own artistic identity.
At the core of her practice, she explores the materiality of objects and the body, highlighting textures, colors, folds, wrinkles, fissures, strengths and weaknesses. Her artistic approach, infused with emotions, is focused on the intimate; self-portraiture and intimate space; home. Beyond technique, she uses photography to transcend emotions and a tumultuous personal history.
Everyday subjects and objects, mundane elements, are her preferred subjects. Sara assembles them in a way that they don’t translate a vision of the ordinary but of the extraordinary. She transforms her daily life into a theatrical stage on which she plays/reenacts her own story.
This project is about the home where I grew up, a place where strangeness and the familiarity of the ordinary existed alongside. Being an intimate space, it should have been nurturing and reassuring. And yet, it was the scene of painful scenes. Today, I see this space as threatening.
Uncomfortable, dysfunctional, my home is the witness to scars from the past. In my photographs, I revisit my memories and reclaim the power over my own body. My tiny models express the identity of a young girl under construction, growing up with imbalance and wounds. Deconstructing, reconstructing, objects become bodies, bodies become objects: I feel deformed and petrified.
A home with no roof creates an antagonistic tension between seductive aesthetics and disquieting details. Miniatures enable me to regain control, distancing myself from the past
and releasing new strengths to properly become an adult.
