MARIELA SANCARI

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

 

The twin sister and Mariela Sancari herself were unable to see their father's body. They never knew whether it was because it had been a suicide or due to the dogmas of the Jewish religion. According to the author, not having seen him has made her doubt his death in many ways. The feeling remains that it was all a nightmare and, above all, the fantasy that the two sisters might run into him walking down the street or sitting in a cafe.

 

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 called upon men of the age her father would be if he were living. She photographed them all in the same manner and, with their portraits, attempted to compose an impossible image of her father and imagine what he would look like had he lived to grow old.