In his long-standing research on the
male gender, Christophe Canato uses the medium of photography to deliver
minimal compositions in the past but for the first time with the Homo Faber
series his works seem messy and complex.

These patchworks composed of
photographs from Canato's image bank combined with other existing images propose
digital collages that include fragments of male bodies, including human
skeleton and human anatomy imagery, flora, wildlife, religious and political
symbols as well as medical objects such as lobotomy tools.

Each work from this series has an
under title including a flora name as the artist's personal reference. Canato's
digital collage refers to flora and biology and reveals human bodies in
metamorphosis as if to remind us where we all come from. His compositions
include tools used for lobotomization and skulls damaged by this medical
intervention. Juge wig and religious symbols represent the authority, glitters
and high heels could represent the decadence.

Christophe Canato’s research questions the notion of belonging or
rejection and the status that man is supposed to hold in society. In Latin literature, Appius Claudius Caecus uses
term Home Faber in his Sententiæ, referring to the ability of man
to control his destiny and what surrounds him: Homo faber suae quisque
fortunae ("Every man is the artifex of his destiny").