HUMANKIND X NATURE:
André Cunha: "Sanctuary"

Sanctuary began in 2016, when André Cunha encountered a family living in a village located in the southern region of Brazil, imparting an unusual life in the face of the impositions of an increasingly technological world. This family follows an analog model of life, where time and space are respected, as well as being their greatest allies.

Of German origin, the patriarch arrived in the country in 1994 where he married and had his four children. The family subsists in agriculture, alien to the internet and to the present amenities of modern life, producing its own material and spiritual sustenance, based on a natural, sustainable and simple life, but full of peculiarities, which can be understood as reflections of an alternative proposal.

The photographer's intention was to register this paradox, between an attitude devoid of complexity, but full of what we could call eccentricity, either because of its visagism, which strays from the more traditional aesthetics, or because of the way of life itself, discarding the benefits that many of we can no longer live on the sidelines.

Within the universe portrayed, where many would see scarcity, André saw power and beauty, in the basic and creative everyday that, says the photographer, perhaps, the vast majority of us have lost. The sensuality that emanates from the day-to-day images of this family makes us think of Love and Nature, the two primordial energies that should guide our existence.

It is up to us, who are on the other side, to watch while we also look around and try to guess where humanity is heading.