CANTI RITUALI | AUTORITRATTI

RITUAL SONGS investigate suffering and self-love in relation to the divine. The photographs record the plasticity of the body in a way that reveals the presence of the soul and a lived space. They are carnal and visual prayers, like the sacred paintings of the Italian 12th century. Through the act of photographing, of imprinting one's bodily form in a luminous space, I sought to initiate a cathartic process and focus on my spiritual crisis. When photography appeared, photographing was a ritual and symbolic act in both western industrial society and traditional populations. Being photographed meant expressing the soul, communicating with the position of the body values and ideals of an individual and society. Ritual chants seek creative plastic figures of the body, which, as in tradition, can give light to deep feelings, capable of moving from the biographical to the communal and the universal. Photography is, therefore, a ritual performative action, which seeks to relate through the self-portrait body with Being.