Neither ancestry nor foundation are erased by the rules of the politically correct universe. Not in the first, nor in the third, nor in the last of the worlds. No matter what humans think, we will continue heading towards the abyss of what we once were, what we are, what we will be. The images from the series Whatever God Wants, by photographer Dani Tranchesi, say something about this subject. They were held at the São Joaquim Fair, also known as Água de Meninos, in Salvador, Bahia, in a warehouse where animals are for sale to, above all, be sacrificed in offerings to the orixás. It is a scary, noisy, feverish place, run by a man who sells what the customers ask for, many of them fathers and mothers of saints. It is a mystery, with name and surname, that a place like that, in the 21st century, remains open to the public. But it is precisely this mystery that makes the scream and pain of the contemporary world increasingly incomprehensible. Human nature and animal nature at the service of the nature of the invisible: nothing more fragile and violent, at the same time. Just as each of us are. ​

 

Diogenes Moura