Aimez-vous l’orage ? by Fiona Segadães Da Silva

Issue 175

My photographic project “Aimez-vous l’orage ? “, as a fragmentary and silent narrative, explores the concepts of exile, corporeality and saudade. Seeking to question in a palpable approach memory disorders and the emptiness that accompanies them, to discover how vulnerability can make itself visible. It is certain that our body always remains connected to the places we pass through. These images are built on feelings of vulnerability and loss. They tend to make visible moments and sensations that are difficult to express but which silently haunt our bodies and our mental spaces. Everything was guided by thoughts written by my great-grand-father about his exile and his own relationship to landscapes and melancholy. Emotion takes precedence over reality. The thunderstorm suggests both the uproar it engenders and the silence that accompanies it.

Fiona Segadães Da Silva (she/her) lives and works in Le Havre, France.
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