While I was trying to express properly the reasons why I am a photographer, but not only...a mix of art director, photographer, dancer, painter, thinker not more than any other human being that likes to think...well, a mix of titles for the activities I like to spend my time in, because while I do them, I keep going on into my inner road...I walk further, I dig deeper...Now all those activities melt together and became me, like something with many arms, heads, legs and everything needed. A creature of myself. Me in the getting in the meaning. This exhibition is a map I left behind my steps...a map of which my free steps took in their rebelious way to follow the road that seemed right. When I met more people on this road, I didn't want to go anywhere else anymore. I wanted to walk only on my road, because I am safe knowing that anything that could happen on the sides of my road will not shake me in any way...because I will keep on comunicating with these people who follow their own road, because there is no other way to feel natural, there is nothing better than being happy. This is how it happened and how it is happening. So what you will experience here is a self journey and the only reason why I publish this, the main one, the reason that really made me feel right about this, be passionate about it, is that I hope deep inside that the ones who will meet these maps will know that it is safe, that is alright, that you will also remember to follow your own and to keep on going, your way. This exhibition is a reminder for any who feels right to follow their path, knowing that the more the people do this, the better we will be together, no chaos to fear, but the harmony of one single rhythm, made of all the rhythms of the world. These decisions to express ourselves are the only way to remind us to free ourselves. I wish that my wish will turn in reality as fast as I wrote it. And I wish by publishing this map, I shall keep on continuing deeper and deeper inside my wild, while letting those go...into their wild.....

 

Now here is a little story...While I was trying to describe properly my proffesion, searching for a expression formula to fit into a broshure layout, along other "specialists" in the communication domain...back than, in that afternon, when we were sitting in the gazibu of the first MARAKUJA house, in Kibagabaga, Kigali, Rwanda, she was writting in the way it felt natural to her, the way she wished those words to be written about me. Here it is Natacha, what you wrote about me on the orange notebook...the truth...I know it is the truth because when you decide to write you are in fact playing with doubts or possibilities coming from truths you collected until that right moment...and if the play is not finished...well it is to be continued, to be understood deeper... If it is finished, it is just because you need something to hang on to so you don't fall, you decide to finish it in a dot...something to lean on...while you will build on a better, more peaceful inner feeling...well Natacha Muziramakenga ..."Irina Bara is a continent. Irina Bara is full of colors. Irina Bara is a rainbow. Irina Bara is a beauty seaker. Irina Bara is a color hunter. Irina Bara would like to touch the truth behind the image. Irina Bara tells a story. Irina Bara is looking for the story that each and every bird has to say. Irina Bara does not capture beauty. She let's it express its true purpose. Irina Bara peeps at the possibilities that are..."