Sara De Brito Faustino

*1999 PT/NL, based in Lausanne (Switzerland)

exhibited works:

5 untiteld works, 2023 and 2024

from the series “A Home with No Roof”

“This project is about the home where I grew up, a place where strangeness and the familiarity of the ordinary existed alongside each other. Being an intimate space, it should have been nurturing and reassuring. And yet it was the site of painful scenes. Today, I see this space as threatening. Uncomfortable, dysfunctional, my home is the witness to scars from the past.

In my photographs, I revisit my memories and reclaim the power over my own body. My tiny models express the identity of a young girl under construction, growing up with imbalance and wounds. Deconstructing, reconstructing, objects become bodies, bodies become objects: I feel deformed and petrified.

A Home With No Roof creates an antagonistic tension between seductive aesthetics and disquieting details. Miniatures enable me to regain control, distancing myself from the past and releasing new strengths to properly become an adult.”

Exhibition

GEN Z: SHAPING A NEW GAZE

Duration: May 9–August 30, 2026

Gen Z, one generation, countless perspectives: the exhibition presents works by over 40 photographers from 25 countries born between the 1990s and 2010. Their works reflect experiences shaped by digital worlds, social change and global crises. Across four thematic sections, the exhibition offers insights into the realities, concerns and aspirations of young people. Themes such as identity, belonging, the body and gender are explored creatively, questioned and reimagined through new forms of self-understanding.