DONNA BASSIN
Photo-based artist, filmmaker, trauma psychologist, professor, and published author
Being who we are can be traumatic, especially in disorganizing cultures. Donna Bassin, through her portraits, through the voice of those portrayed, through the tears in the photographs and the ingenious "kintsugi" repair, makes us experience the trauma of another and our own wounds. To experience is to integrate, to be aware of the possible beauty, of which there is a lot in Donna's photographs. Visible trauma, in our consciousness, as in these photographs is mental health. Donna's movements of empathy and willingness to be a witness are therapeutic for us,
who travel to the worlds of trauma experience, and for those portrayed, who see their trauma recognized, but also their subjectivity valued, accepted, thus as it is, without prior definition, without labels, whatever type they may be, because each one of us is unique, and deserves to be discovered in this singularity. This is metal health, because it gives meaning to life.
Hélder Chambel
Clinical Psychologist - Psychotherapist
MY OWN WITNESS: RUPTURE AND REPAIR
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