ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Less than a wall, trapped inside a box

Self-portrait, São Paulo, 2010
Hasselblad 503CW | Zeiss CFE 2.8/80 | T- Max 100/120
Hahnemuhle PhotoRag 308g | 90x90cm
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A spring, a capsule, a cocoon, a nest and a box are images of things that can shut out and separate from that which is most dear to us, but sometimes such things can also reveal to us our “impossible” dreams or secrets. Sylvia Diez places her body into the realm of metaphor, in her position as “prisoner” and thus illustrating our fragility or that which we fear most.

The unconscious, the feminine, leads us to Pandora, the woman who opened the box, releasing the evils upon mankind and leaving only hope imprisoned inside.

In these photographs the artist recreates the search for and creates awareness of the riches that such a box might contain, thus demonstrating our human aspiration to transcend. In this realm, we men must confront our ghosts and, upon opening the box, we come face to face with our deepest desires, thus placing us in a position of great risks.

Diez gives us a moment of pause and reflection, a moment to think about what imprisons us and what might liberate us.

Sinval Garcia
Curator

AUTHOR
Sylvia Diez is a visual artist and performer. Working on the border between photography and performance she proposes self-portraits that seek to unravel the strengths and weaknesses of the human essence.

She began her studies in photography in 2003 at the Faculdade de Comunicação e Artes, SENAC, in São Paulo, Brazil and she concluded the two year Diploma Course in Fine Art Photography at I Escola de La Imatge, IDEP, in Barcelona, Spain in 2009.

In the last years, she has exhibited her work at several galleries in Brazil, Spain and UK. In São Paulo she has featured her work at Conjunto Nacional, Casa das Rosas and at the galeria espaço opHicina; in Salvador, at Instituto Cultural Brasil Alemanha and Biblioteca Pública de Barris. In Spain she has shown her work in Sabadell at Galeria Sis.

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