Andrea Graziosi is an Italian photographer based in Marseille. He grew up in a small village, a religious destination for many pilgrims. His research focuses on the correlations between human beings and other forms of life. Evoking and working on ontological notions linked to the concepts of becoming animal, parallel dimensions, fracture and strangeness, he seeks to produce photographic works in which the role of the printed object is decisive. In 2015, he published his first book, Nunc Stans, with André Frère Éditions. He is currently working on the publication of the Animas project.

Anima, 2022

In the center of Sardinia, in various villages of the Barbagia region, strange and archaic traditions live on. These ancient cults, practiced by the locals, represent an intense and brutal relationship between man and the savage, and have a mystical, spiritual and sacred value, with a cathartic and liberating purpose. These costumes belong to a time that does not belong to us; masking is a destiny, the link in a disturbing relationship between the animal-being and the divinity. Wearing a mask means metamorphosing into another entity. The threatening and disturbing effect of these masks is not to frighten the other, but to provoke a relationship with the other. Inhabitants of this region use the expression Animas to define something that has neither time nor body, that is at once disquieting and wild, that is specifically non-human, and that serves to bring about an experience.