These bodies in stone, vacant volumes that I inhabit, give support to my anguish and pain. Eliminating what is not essential from the subject material, I shape, another time, these already sculpted and immutable bodies to transform them into fragile, and questionable beings. Half way between what seemingly is and what isn’t there, the veil revealing the ambiguous and mysterious core of the human condition.
Without wanting to find a solution, my gaze analyzes the contrast between real and unreal, positioning itself in the uncertainty and the incapacity of understanding the limits of our conscious perception.
Through art I undertake an existential search: a rough trek in which I end up shaping a silent fight between the desire for immortality and the acceptance of the vulnerable and perishable. Deprived corporeal landscapes leave behind only flesh, stone, bones and fissures. That which is true dissolves and a sick body remains surrounded by its most intimate fear. A body, alone and afflicted, facing life’s uncertainty.
Giuseppe Santagata received a B.A and a M.A in Law before focusing on photography. He studied Photography at the Antiono Failde School of Art and Design (AESD) in Ourense, Spain from 2008 to 2010 and obtained an International Master’s in Conceptual and Artistic Photography at the School of Photography and Center for Imaging (EFTI) in Madrid (2012). He has most recently participated in the collective exhibition, “Festival Off Photoespaña” and was selected by the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid for the exhibition, “ Passion: Photography on the Terrace”, both in Madrid.
