Mar Sez: Terza Vita: Lido di Ostia, Roma

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Terza Vita, a third life.

This enchanting book looks at the fruitful opportunities of new interpersonal relationships after a two-year compulsory break. Rome, artistic and monumental, is the setting. The background is lively yet anonymous: empty spaces spared from ubiquitous tourism. It was here that Mar Sez decided to observe the reappearing residents, and above all the yearning young lovers, on the beaches of Rome's Ostia seaside resort.

Sez looks at her subjects from a proximity that is as invasive as it is complicit. She wanted her photographs to be permeable to the intimacy of those portrayed. Sez captures their vulnerability, in an agreed exchange between the photographer, the photographed and the future spectator during a moment of historical and social transition.

Playing out in an iconic multi-temporal city, Terza Vita approaches the concept of freedom and the map of affections born in the bosom of a third life, a life beyond the nostalgia of a stable past, beyond the shock of uncertainty of the present, beyond the future.

Author Bio

Mar Sez (Murcia, 1983) is an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, text, video, and sound. She holds a degree in Psychology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia. She has furthered her studies and specialized in contemporary photography, theory, and other artistic projects. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is produced as installations, books, web documents, and films. Before Terza Vita she published two other books, Vera and Victoria (2016) and Gabriel (2018), both with Andr Frre ditions in France. Sez's work is present in museums and private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

The beautifully poetic accompanying text is by Elena Medel, the well-known Spanish novelist, essayist and poet.