BIMAL FABBRI – KALIMA

Kalima (Nepali: Kali: literally "the black one" ama/ma: mother) describes my return to Nepal. In February 2022, for the first time in more than 20 years, I returned to the village of my childhood, which I had to leave all on my own when I was seven years old. I review this part of my past with the eyes of an adult (raised in Italy and now living in Berlin) and with images which have been in my memory since childhood. The work shows life in this region, a life which could have been mine, and at the same time my outside perception of it today. I have found my roots and my family however at the same time, I cannot overcome my present distance to it. In the artistic documentary photographs, which shift between close-ups and distant views, this „distance“ is reflected: Motives, faces, and sceneries are enigmatically obscured, out of focus or remain hidden in the shadows.

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Bimal Fabbri was born in 1993 in a small village in Nepal. For almost a year he lived in an orphanage in Kathmandu. He was adopted by an Italian family. For two years he studied painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and then for one year at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He completed his photografic studies at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

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