Series - FotoSlovo 2024 - Category « Wild life »
Gold Medal
In the center of Sardinia, in different villages of the territory of Barbagia, live well anchored strange and archaic traditions. Practiced by the inhabitants, ancient cults, represent an intense and brutal relationship that the man maintains with the wild and carry a mystical, spiritual and sacred value, with a cathartic and liberating purpose. These costumes belong to a time that does not belong to us, masking is a destiny, the link of a disturbing relationship between the being-animal and the divinity; wearing a mask means to metamorphose under the shape of another entity. The threatening and disturbing that these masks produce does not have the function of frightening the other, but it is to provoke a relationship with the other. The inhabitants, of this region, use the expression Animas to define something that has neither time nor body, of disturbing time, wild, is what is specifically non-human and serves to live an experience. ANIMAS is the result of a work of research and production that has lasted over eight years and will be published in the 2024.
