(work in progress / 2025)
«(…) Death, in his view, appears as closure: an absolute limit that reveals the void and confronts us with the experience of the irretrievable. Within the context of this series, that dimension manifests itself in the space left by the dresses: presences that are no longer here, fragments that allude both to what is visible and to what is absent.
As Roland Barthes notes when speaking of the photographic memento mori, the image generates nostalgia (…) In this series, however, the black dress functions as a different kind of memento mori: it does not confront us with our own death but with the absence of the other, with the pain of someone who is no longer here. (…)
Thus, black ceases to be only a “non-color” and becomes a symbolic gesture: a way of naming the unnamable, of holding the void and inhabiting loss. Pain becomes material, mourning becomes visible, and memory is inscribed in the space occupied by the objects that remain.
