Sigmund Freud saw ambivalence as the co-existence of two opposite underlying motives which are the inherent a person. The most fundamental of them are an appetency to life and the death drive.
In fact, sometimes I catch myself thinking that I am attracted to death. Rather, it is an ordinary interest of the unknown, the mysterious and the breathtaking subject.
But everything has its own time.
While being on training in Dusseldorf, I permitted myself a little bit to ponder about life and death, taking pictures in the cemeteries. Through this series I have attempted to show, as it is possible, that the concept of life and death is hardly separated, drawing between them a certain line, a boundary. Although the line in this case is the cemetery, as a guide in the world of the dead, I still tried to look at these two notions without regard to that boundary. I decided to combine the cemetery’s views and the textures of the tombstones.
For me it was an opportunity to come a little bit closer to understanding the life and death question in this series of photos, as in direct and in a figurative sense.
Dusseldorf,2011
