Through analogue manipulations, Sara de Brito Faustino hand-builds intricate sets whose materiality and textures challenge the very notion of what a photographic image can hold.
Over the course of thirteen years of practicing the medium of photography, she has developed several precise and elaborate techniques that enable her to reappropriate her memories. At the core of her practice, she explores the materiality of objects and the body through scales, highlighting textures, colors, folds, fissures, strengths, and weaknesses. Her artistic approach, infused with emotion, is focused on the intimate: self-portraiture and the domestic space; home.
Through analogue manipulations, she hand-builds intricate sets whose materiality and textures challenge the very notion of what a photographic image can hold. The plasticity of the materials she uses interacts with the complexity of remembering, translating emotions, and a tumultuous personal history into tangible forms. Everyday subjects and mundane objects are her preferred starting points, which she assembles in ways that shift them from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Her practice questions the boundary between public and private. In her exhibitions, she often creates site-specific installations that subtly replicate the feeling of being inside a home. By blending the exhibition space with domestic cues, she introduces an intentional ambiguity: the viewer is left to wonder whether the images refer to the architecture around them or to fragments of her personal history. This overlap becomes a way of testing how memory can inhabit physical space and how space, in turn, can reshape memory.
Sara De Brito Faustino (NL, PT, 1999) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in photography from ECAL in 2023. She was born and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Since her graduation, Sara De Brito Faustino has participated in several group shows in Switzerland and across Europe. She presented her diploma project, A Home With No Roof, for the first time as a solo show in November 2024 at Images Vevey’s permanent exhibition space L’Appartement. Since then, she has continued developing the project, turning it into her first monographic book, to be published in November 2025 by Ciao Press and Editions Images Vevey."