In the works presented, the Body—experienced, conceived, and fragmented—stands at the center of the investigation. It is a gaze directed toward the complexity of human existence. The images explore the boundaries of identity within a fluid dimension that moves through and beyond corporeal matter, approaching its dissolution.
The project originates from a reflection on the concept of the boundary as an essential component of the human condition: the first threshold between the self and the other, the body is the space of differentiation in which the sense of one’s own individuality takes shape.
The photographic medium becomes a tool for exploring corporeality, within a dance between the one who is portrayed and the one who portrays. Movement transcends the limits of the body, flowing through a process that embraces and transforms, approaching the ultimate threshold of the loss of one’s self-image.
The project emerges from a series of questions that I choose to leave open:
If one’s image is defined through being seen, then am I what the other sees of me? If the boundaries of identity are shaped through otherness, what would happen if I were defined through a distorted form? Would I still be present to myself, or would I become only an emptiness filled by an image that does not belong to me? Within the dichotomy of Self and Other, is there a space in which one can recognize oneself?
These questions serve as an introduction to a research process that places the body, in its existence as a presence before form, at the core of the investigation. The aim is to explore the boundaries between identity and otherness, guided by questions that chart the course of a project in constant evolution.