Whatever God wants

WHATEVER GOD WANTS?

Do you know what it’s like to sharpen a razor and wipe away the tears on the skin of the profane? Do you know what it’s like to raise your hands before the sacred, that baroque body whose skin gleams under the sun, seeking a long breath, seeking memory?

WHATEVER GOD WANTS is a project about photography and literature.

It’s an idea about a country, Brazil, still unknown to ourselves, that doesn’t enter through the front door, but rather deviates from the path in search of a present time that will always be a passage.

Nothing within each of these images is definitive. Nothing within each of these words will be eternal, this verse invented so that man can endure his own existence, his own selfishness.

Here, within the images and words, we will always be on the edge of the abyss because that’s who we truly are. The strength of this feeling will be present in the eyes and voices only of those who scream from within: we know how to love as much as we know how to hate; we know how to smile as much as we know how to destroy; we know how to cry as much as we know how to lie.

Hence the sacred and the profane. Hence the brotherhood between image and literature. Hence the incessant struggle to protect what is most valuable to us and not allow this breath of humanity—what is commonly called “culture”—to be transformed into consumable material, into a disposable product.

Diógenes Moura

Writer | Photography Curator | Editor

Exhibition on view from December 7, 2024, to March 4, 2025, at the Museum of Photography in Fortaleza, Ceará.

And on view from May 1, 2025, to June 22, 2025, at the MIS, São Paulo, SP.