Ana Rego

Not being able to live but one life

15.04 - 27.05.2023

This myth is tragic only because its hero is conscious.

«The Myth of Sisyphus», Albert Camus

 

Imagine, suddenly losing the ability to speak, to walk or to smile, only keeping the movement of your eyes and the awareness of that inaction. Alive, in a dead body. Like' "Sisyphus" from Camus, condemned to repetition until eternity, to the absurdity and futility of existence.

Starting from the concept of the "Locked-in Syndrome" - resulting from a stroke - in which a fully preserved consciousness is combined with a total loss of motor skills, "not being able to live but one life" is a poetic and interdisciplinary visual essay between art and science, which addresses mind-body duality and the meaning of being alive when totally deprived of autonomy and the ability to communicate.

Today's society has the technological sophistication to keep a body alive, but can it restore the most fundamental human abilities?



BIO

Ana Rego Ana Rego (1974, Portugal). Graduated in Medical Sciences, she studied Photography in Porto, has a master in artistic photography (ICPI, 2019), and in 2022 she joined Barda Collective.

In her practice she seeks to document thematics inspired by social, cultural and scientific issues, and using an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach between art and science, she attempts to respond in an innovative way to ethical and emerging issues that are faced by today's society.

Her work has been exhibited in: Fnac Galleries, Oporto and Lisbon (2004), Fundação Oriente, Dili-Timor (2010), Encontros de Imagem, Guimarães (2019), PhotoAlicante, Alicante, Spain (2020), HybridArt Space Gallery, Budapest (2019) and MIPOFF in Mês Imagem Porto (2022). She received wards with the projects: "Afghanistan 2002" - honorable mention FNAC New Talents in 2004; and "Não poder viver senão uma vida" - 1st prize science at Budapest International Foto Awards and honorable mention at International Photography Awards in 2019.

 

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