honorable mention
Daniela Balestrin brazil
title
Your gaze is green
The woman mimics the gesture of being before what she sees. Seeks an other who is willing to witness and, in exchange, gaze back at her. The woman photographs.
The nearness, the surfaces and the beings, the intimacy with the child who refrains from pretending to know and teaches how to be a witness - this opens an outward passage that folds inward. Your gaze is green recreates what takes place when we are existing in our kitchens tearing the bread, and happen to wave from the surface to our self that dwells deep.
*This photo-essay was created between 2021 and 2022.
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entry description
The child closes their eyes with her hands, a statement: I am not. Then, opening hands and eyes, says: I am here. Another game involves folding a piece of paper and crafting a spyglass that will frame everything within small circles. By pointing the device, they create what comes into existence before them. The child grows.The woman mimics the gesture of being before what she sees. Seeks an other who is willing to witness and, in exchange, gaze back at her. The woman photographs.
The nearness, the surfaces and the beings, the intimacy with the child who refrains from pretending to know and teaches how to be a witness - this opens an outward passage that folds inward. Your gaze is green recreates what takes place when we are existing in our kitchens tearing the bread, and happen to wave from the surface to our self that dwells deep.
*This photo-essay was created between 2021 and 2022.
about the photographer
Visual artist and photographer, in her work Daniela Balestrin [1984; São Paulo/Brazil] creates intimacy with events, approaching the mesh of movements that weave through her daily life. She sees in the immanence of the imaginary in the real the very experience of the mystery of existing. Her academic background is in Law [2007], having worked for almost fifteen years as a public servant, dedicating most of her time to defending the rights and interests of children and adolescents. During this period, she gradually approached photography in a self-taught manner. Since 2020, she has transformed photography into her profession, also creating collages from her own materials or appropriating them from family archives or elsewhere.back to gallery