SANCTUARIUM DOMESTICUM is an ongoing series produced in the suburbs of Brazil, where low-income families survive. Due to a lack of resources, they improvise their homes with what little they have, get from third parties or find in landfills.The series is extensive and developed in parts. In this first part, it was possible to follow a single mother with her daughter in her domestic routine of doing laundry while also taking care of her daughter. At a certain point, the sunlight and wind invaded the environment, casting a shadow from the orange fabric that was hanging, like a veil that conductive and inviting to capture. These women live in a chasm between this reality and the developments of the technological world. Despite their limitations and working full time to survive and take care of their children, they create and improvise beautiful environments that are intriguing. This is an interesting factor to note, because considering these conditions, they are digitally excluded, without the opportunity to learn new skills, imperatively less able to consume, and therefore value domestic life more, surviving on what they can.

Beauty and color enchant, but they also disturb. And remembering the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky who believed that “We certainly cannot live without bread, but it is also impossible to exist without beauty”.