The book Moisés makes ingenious use of the double-page spread format to create the effect of a third dimension in portraits of 70-year-old men. The delicacy with which the different portraits are associated generates a sculptural effect in the photographs that gives the portrait its full force.
This is how the book is described by its author, Mariela Sancari: "Moisés is a typology of portraits of 70-year-old men, the age my father would be today if he were alive. The discipline of thanatology considers that not seeing the dead body of our loved ones prevents us from accepting their death. Contemplating the inert body of the deceased helps us to overcome one of the most complex stages of grief: denial. My twin sister and I were unable to see our father's body.
I never knew if it was because it was a suicide or because of Jewish religious dogmas or both. Not having seen him made us doubt his death in many ways. The feeling that it was all a nightmare and the fantasy we both have that we will meet him walking in the street or sitting in a café has accompanied us all these years."
