Haunting And Enigmatic, Juan Sebastian’s The Roar of the Winds Questions Our Existence Through The Veiled Body

Shot in grand landscapes, the enigmatic scenes of his latest series ‘The Roar of the Winds’ tell stories of movement, intimacy, and otherness, through a study of the concealed human body and the pervasive stillness that surrounds it. Used to veil the bodies, the fabric is a recurrent motif in Sebastian’s oeuvre, to pull the subjects away from the tangible world, making them transcendent and eternal. “The fabric has been a fundamental element that has allowed me to build a possible world within my photography,” he notes, explaining that “in my images, the fabric configures the space, it evidences the passage of time, and allows the visualization of light and its struggle with the shadows.” Giving movement to the portrayed subject, the fabric “configures the bodies—adorned first, and then veiled—while opening various windows to the symbolic and interpretive possibility of my work,” he continues. Enabling a vast diversity of interpretations and questions, image-making becomes Sebastian’s unique door and threshold to memories, imaginaries, experiences, beliefs, fears, and prejudices.