EX-SISTERE

In 2026 the camera turns inward. After nearly a decade photographing matter in transformation — the dune, the stone, the water — the artist places her own body before the lens and submits it to the same treatment: the long exposure, which dissolves the outline and multiplies the figure.

The result is not portraiture in the usual sense. There is no face to recognise, but three or four faces emerging from a single gesture, as if the image recorded not a person but a person's passage through herself. It is the most direct series here, and the riskiest: the element in transformation is her.

To exist is not merely to be alive.

The word comes from the Latin ex-sistere, “to place oneself outside”, “to step out of oneself”. In the Greek philosophical tradition, human life is also understood as a movement of transcendence. A person is not sealed within themselves, but fulfils their existence by opening to the other, to truth and to the world.

To exist, then, is more than to remain; it is to leave one's own centre. It is to stop living only for oneself and to discover that fullness happens in the encounter, in relationship, and in the capacity to transcend one's own limits.