SANCTUARIUM DOMESTICUM

Ongoing series being produced in the suburbs of Brazil, where poor families and some with no income struggle to survive. Due to the lack of resources, they improvise their homes with what little they have, get from others or find in rubbish dumps.

Ongoing series being produced in the suburbs of Brazil, where poor families and some with no income struggle to survive. Due to the lack of resources, they improvise their homes with what little they have, get from others or find in rubbish dumps. Some borrow energy from their neighbours. These are individuals who live in a gap between this reality and the developments of the technological world. This is an interesting factor to note, because considering this condition, they are imperatively less able to consume, and therefore value domestic life more, surviving on what they can, creating and building aesthetically interesting environments and interiors. The use of our leftovers, whether broken objects, furniture, light bulbs, fabrics, underwear or whatever is discarded, thrown away, is appropriated, selected as a way of overcoming what they lack, and obviously a fundamental contribution to the environment. In this sense, the creative capacity of these people is admirable, because even in the face of such precariousness they manage to set their lives in a loving way, improvising beautiful visual narratives. And remembering the Russian writer Fiodor Dostoevsky who believed that ‘We certainly cannot live without bread, but it is also impossible to exist without beauty’