Men

At twenty what beckons is the blind memory of things never seen; I want to see, I want to look at everything that is impossible to come close to. The unearthed reality of men hiding in closed communities, human communities bound by codes of honour and brotherhood. Impenetrable communities, for the extreme confrontation with life, as is with death, is itself solitary and concealed from sight. Male communities only; woman who holds the mystery of life is the first ring in the human chain. Figures of what “is Of Men” and in its Latin equivalent of some men only. Diverse and indissoluble figures from “the fantasy of an ideal” of western male which belongs to a recent past. Invisible figures on the daily surface of the present moment: American boxers, carbon miners of Donbass; the Legionnaire of the Foreign Legion; the Matador de Toros of Spain immemorial; the American firefighters; sailors, fishermen and mariners of all ports, men of the Sea. Of Men questions the figure embodied by the unspeakable mystery each human destiny stands within and beyond its flame