The series "I believe in Nights" by Belgian photographer Pierre Liebaert explores the ritual activity that is part of man's relationship with the rhythm of the seasons, the lunar cycle, that of repetition rather than history, with the constraints of cold and warmth, of harvest and collective life, of sexuality and death.
This moment of self-transformation appeals to all that is outside the ordinary "I", to all that escapes this everyday identity. The change of identity is its main characteristic - and its goal. Whoever wants to participate fully in the rite can only do so by entering the skin of another, more precisely as someone with a double status: oneself and another self. The rite invites to a return to the undifferentiated, to ambivalence, to the original chaos, to the time before the strict differentiation between men and women, savages and civilized, believers and pagans, relatives and strangers... Finally, he proposes to discover this part of the other which is in each of us.
The photographic series "I believe in Nights" constitutes the mirror, sometimes distorting, of a society inevitably in the grip of contradictions and questions on the meaning of what it builds.