Sara De Brito Faustino

Biografie:

Sara De Brito Faustino recently graduated with a Bachelor's degree in photography from ECAL. The artist is currently continuing her journey at the institution as a teaching assistant. She lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over the course of eleven years of practicing the medium of photography, she has developed her own artistic identity. At the core of her practice, she explores the materiality of objects and the body, highlighting textures, colors, folds, wrinkles, fissures, strengths and weaknesses. Her artistic approach, infused with emotions, is focused on the intimate; self-portraiture and intimate space; home. Beyond technique, she uses photography to transcend emotions and a tumultuous personal history. Everyday subjects and objects, mundane elements, are her preferred subjects. Sara assembles them in a way that they don’t translate a vision of the ordinary but of the extraordinary. She transforms her daily life into a theatrical stage on which she play/reenacts her own story.

Werkbeschrieb:

Frames on table: "Constructed memory" "Constructed memory" delves into the intricate nuances of memory, exploring its elusive nature as an imperfect reproduction of reality. At the core of this project lies the psychological concept of false memory. The genesis of this project emerged from the discovery of three archive images showing my apartment, four years ago. Initially perceiving these scenes as calming, soft, and inviting, they evoked a peaceful childhood. However, a startling revelation unfolded when I learned that these images were from the 90s, before my birth, and that my early childhood was far from idyllic. Seeking to reappropriate and reconstruct these memories, I meticulously recreated the scenes in paper on a 1:10 scale.