Sara De Brito Faustino

b. 1999 Netherlands-Portugal 

Based in Lausanne (Switzerland)

‘This project is about the home where I grew up, a place where strangeness and the familiarity of the ordinary existed alongside each other. Being an intimate space, it should have been nurturing and reassuring. And yet it was the site 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.’

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Images: Sara De Brito Faustino, Untitled, 2023, from the series A Home With No Roof © ECAL / Sara De Brito Faustino 

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