Viscera

• Photographer
  Giuseppe Santagata

I use self-representation as an intimate and introspective investigation, transforming every self-portrait into a metaphysical manifesto. Like Narcissus in front of the mirror, I reproduce the image of myself, making my body the subject and the object of my research. 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.