Hymns to the night

Hymns to the Night is a series of black-and-white photographic collages that constructs a nocturnal universe suspended between the human, the animal, and the mythical. The title pays homage to the German Romantic poet Novalis, serving not as an illustration of his work, but as an invocation of night as a realm of transformation and poetic territory. Departing from photography as a document of the visible, Garcete uses the image as raw material. Through cutting, layering, and digital manipulation, elements from disparate contexts are assembled into scenes where daily logic no longer applies. Silhouettes obscure individual identity, turning bodies into archetypes, guardians, or symbols. Under the pervasive presence of the moon, human figures, animals, and entomological hybrids coexist in a quiet, unsettling harmony. The night does not merely transform the appearance of things—it dissolves their categories. Hymns to the Night offers no definitive narrative; instead, it invites the viewer into an uncanny mythology where the familiar quietly becomes something else.