Esthetics of Loneliness
When the world came to a standstill in 2020, Sevilay Maria found herself in isolation with feelings of fear, insecurity, and frustration. Quarantined with loneliness – cut off from friends, her craft, and life as a whole – she had only herself as a confidant in a fight with the deafening silence of solitude. Not just battling with the fear that came with aloneness, but her fear of being alone in itself. In the late spring of 2020, Sevilay looked her trialing emotions straight in the eye through the lens of her digital camera. And by doing so, she made herself see its beauty – the esthetics of loneliness.
Observing models through a woman’s eyes, ‘Esthetics of Loneliness’ moves away from sexuality to search for the abstract and architectural beauty within a body – its curves and lines portrayed as if they were a landscape. With friends and acquaintances as models, Sevilay captured the conflicting pain of solitude while finding fragility and intimacy at six feet distance. ‘Esthetics of Loneliness’ features images of surrender, struggle, vulnerability, strength, unrest, and silence. The use of light and movement expresses all its contradictions through the female body, equally expressive as soft.
When the world came to a standstill in 2020, Sevilay Maria found herself in isolation with feelings of fear, insecurity, and frustration. Quarantined with loneliness – cut off from friends, her craft, and life as a whole – she had only herself as a confidant in a fight with the deafening silence of solitude. Not just battling with the fear that came with aloneness, but her fear of being alone in itself. In the late spring of 2020, Sevilay looked her trialing emotions straight in the eye through the lens of her digital camera. And by doing so, she made herself see its beauty – the esthetics of loneliness.
Observing models through a woman’s eyes, ‘Esthetics of Loneliness’ moves away from sexuality to search for the abstract and architectural beauty within a body – its curves and lines portrayed as if they were a landscape. With friends and acquaintances as models, Sevilay captured the conflicting pain of solitude while finding fragility and intimacy at six feet distance. ‘Esthetics of Loneliness’ features images of surrender, struggle, vulnerability, strength, unrest, and silence. The use of light and movement expresses all its contradictions through the female body, equally expressive as soft.
