About Ascensão (Ascension)
By Fabien Gaffez
Beauty is not enough. It can also bewilder, question, recompose us. With two sequences shots, for which the term sublime is not overused, Ascensão is an invitation to a rare journey, a reconciliation between aesthetics and metaphysics, a bit in Pasolini’s footsteps: Christianity deconstructed through its pictorial entities, the contemplation of an awaking world (the bodies rise like the sun in the morning), precision of the technical gesture at the service of humble splendour. One mustn’t get away unharmed.
