Broken
3,600 € BrokenPortrait of the Soul
Cliché-verre, gelatin silver print, light box
The cycle of hand-printed photographs is a raw incision into the human body. Its skeleton, built of fragmented bones and existential dilemmas, reveals how a person, even when broken from within, continues to seek peace inside themselves, where the heart/soul resides. The tissues complete the forms of the human body, yet they are transparent to X-rays. The rays pass through the façade and reveal what the eyes cannot see—the beauty within. They create an image that is different every time on the screen, even though all humans share the same “scheme” and construction. As in life, so in photography, the idea of what is positive and what is negative is a matter of subjective choice or point of view.
I have chosen to present the last three photographs from the cycle only as positives, because the soul is goodness, it is truth. These photographs are stripped of detail and contrast; the forms lose their clear outlines, as if viewed through a filter, thus transforming into an abstract image of the soul. It is what makes us who we are and leaves its imprints on the body with every love, every nightmare, every emotion.
I do not know how much the human soul weighs—whether it is only 21 grams, as suggested in the film of the same name—but at the moment of death we do not lose merely 21 grams; we lose ourselves. What remains is only the body of a stranger, cold and empty inside.
Misha Mar, 2024
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Size of Artwork: 80 x 60 cm