All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun explores the intimacy of a relationship between a woman and a younger man. The context of the pandemic limited our movements, modifying and disrupting the different phases of relationships born in this period. Deprived of social rituals – such as dates in bars or restaurants – knowledge and discovery took place through the exploration of bodies in intimate situations at home or in nature. The project presents a close-up investigation in which the man becomes the artist’s muse, in opposition to the dominant image of the woman as the artist's source of inspiration. It also seeks to challenge the social prejudice that persists against relationships which invert sexual and power roles between man and woman. The diptychs alternate between close-ups of men's bodies and still-lifes; a dualism that becomes a metaphor for powerful sensuality.
A fundamental dynamic element together with music in Sara's biography and artistic career, water resigns reality by bringing to the surface and in the series of works on display, the traces of a spell that binds the underwater dimension to the human and terrestrial one. The condition of hyper visibility of the images which is determined in the extreme proximity to the subject as well as in the lucid transparency of what is touched, immersed or wet with water, establishes the terms for the manifestation of an event: more than the attempt to fix a microscopic knowledge of reality, the revelation of a fruitful and alien energy, elusive to any normative system that characterizes daily experience. By questioning the limit of our ability to know an organic reality in continuous evolution as a possibility, Sara's artistic practice carries out a verification of the sensitive and at the same time abstract quality of the visual experience through the photographic medium. In this sense, detached in meaning from many other possible interpretations, the Salento proverb seems to suggest the possibility of a point of view in which the complexity of reality.
Sara Scanderebech
Sara Scanderebech (b. 1985) is a Milan-based photographer and visual artist. She studied Visual Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts before beginning her career as a photographer at Galleria Carla Sozzani. Her work moves between art, fashion and design, involving close collaboration with a range of artists, brands and magazines. For Scanderebech, photography is a medium for investigating reality and creating new imaginaries. In her projects – which have been exhibited in a range of galleries and festivals – details of plants, animals, objects and bodies become new metaphors and contemporary symbols. Since 2017, Scanderebech has managed the bookshop at Paradise: a Marsèll concept store based in Milan.
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