MARIELA SANCARI

There are images we have never seen and that we are therefore incapable of recreating with our imagination. They say we have memories of things that haven't happened and that we forget many matters of the past. Photography, the portrait, here becomes the memory of an unlived event. The imprint of what we have never had.

 

Her twin sister and Mariela Sancari herself were unable to see their father's body. According to the author, not having seen it has made her doubt his death in many ways.

 

The discipline of thanatology considers that not seeing the dead body of our loved ones prevents us from accepting their death. Contemplating the lifeless body of the deceased helps us overcome one of the most complex stages of grief: denial.

 

Moisés is a typology of portraits of 70-year-old men, the age her father would be today if he were alive.

Through newspaper advertisements, she summoned elderly men of the age her father would be if he were alive. She photographed them all in the same way and, through their portraits, tried to compose an impossible image of her father and imagine what he would look like if he had managed to grow old.