Dana de Luca
Italy
Hyerophany
Hyerophany
The sacred is always compromised with the visible either through a symbol or a relation. Its revealing in the real, its physical manifestation is the “hierophany”. The term is widely used by the religious historian Mircea Eliade.
Hyerophany is a series of diptychs in which I have searched a visual relation between two orders of reality usually considered opposing, the sacred and the mundane. Two categories, that our mind has learned to use to see an order in the world.
While the sculptures inhabit inside the holy space of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the images placed by side are from the profan space, chaotic and mundane that I inhabit.
As I believe that the true Substance of our World doesn’t need a categorical distinction in order to manifest, by juxstaposing them, I aim to recreate the unity of our reality.
Dana de Luca
With an artistic background in theatre I had been freelancing in photojournalism, reportage and portraiture with different national and foreign media. More recently, I’ve been focusing my photographic research beyond the objective bounds of documentary style, searching contaminations in the conceptual and subjective.
In 2013, with a crowd-funding campaign I self publish my photo-book “La petite mort”, exhibited during the Photo Festival in Arles (Book Award Exhibition), at the photo festival SiFest, and in LuganoPhotodays. The book has been exhibited at the Galleria Nobili in Milan.
Dana’s work has featured in many publications including Red Cross and Servimedia (Spain), Gatopardo Mag (Mexico), Vive Mag. (Australia), La Tercera (Chile), Panorama (Italy), Le Journal de la Photographie (France), Playboy (Italy), l’Oeil de la Photographie (France), Critica Impura (Italy).
