"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
Edvard Munch
Principium was inspired by the strange relationship we have with our bodies: while idolizing and relentlessly photographing the gym-sculpted outside we are still very uncomfortable around visions of its insides, nurtured by cinema and literature genres that feed upon gore and horror.
Principium was also heavily influenced by the iconography of the holy and supernatural, especially since it departs from illustrations of the dead, from anatomical compendia of centuries past, and brings them into surreal settings where they revel in rapture.
Principium uses photos of moving, agitated waters, frozen into stillness in a fraction of a second by the author's camera, and used as a stage for actors traveling in time, from an analog to a digital world, from ancient medical, anatomical and natural sciences compendia, dating back to the 16th century, to the bright LED screens of the 21st century, draped in mystical tattoos and halos, covered with fauna and flora.
Principium draws inspiration from Alchemy, in its several stages and transformative power.
Full development Veiga (2016), Principium · Blurb ↗
