Roberto Goya

Photographer
Remembering Death
Biography: Roberto Goya is an artist established in Tenerife, born in 1977, with a degree in Dramatic Art by the School of Actors of the Canary Islands, with a multidisciplinary education that includes areas as the scenery, dance or mime. Recently he has... MORE
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Remembering Death
Copyright Roberto Goya 2024
Updated Oct 2012
Topics Community, Conceptual, Documentary, Dying/Death, Fine Art, Paracin, Photography, Serbia

Death is the definitive event in our lives and at Paracin, in the heart of Serbia, you can not take a step without feeling its presence without remembering it. The framed esquelas are posted on the facade of the houses and electric poles, piled up one above the others, or in a tree, or in the corner of a quiet cafe, making memories last for years of people who have died and who lived or frequented such places, allowing that memory remains in the collective consciousness of the community and can be recollected outside the most intimate and reserved scope of family and close friends, as occurs in most of the countries within our cultural orbit. There seems to be a higher tendency to share externally an emotional space usually innermost, qualifying the phenomenon of death as something less taboo. Accordingly, it creates a more habitual relationship between the memory of the deceased and the viewer who momentarily bring them back to mind. And “remember”, according to the meaning of its Latin etymology, is "come back through the heart".

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