Curatorial Statement:
This black-and-white photographic series presents a meditative engagement with gesture, corporeality, and transformation. Set against the natural chiaroscuro of an overcast sky and a quiet lakeside landscape, the subject—a woman in flowing white—enacts a visual lexicon of motion, emotion, and poise. These are not portraits in the traditional sense, but performative images. Each frame is a suspended instant of embodied narrative, where dance becomes a syntax through which the subject inscribes herself into both space and image.
The photographic language here resists the passive capture of stillness. Instead, it mobilizes the performative body as a site of flux, a transient architecture where subjectivity materializes. The figure’s fluid gestures, her elongated limbs, and the billowing dress operate not as mere aesthetic devices but as articulations of a feminine ontology—a becoming that refuses containment. The temporal disjunction between body and nature—caught in tension, extension, suspension—recalls the iconography of the classical muse while simultaneously disrupting it.
The use of monochrome decontextualizes the image from realism, abstracting the emotional temperature and allowing for a more symbolic reading. It evokes not nostalgia but an affective neutrality, where viewers are drawn into the embodied intensity rather than the documentary surface. In doing so, it invites a reading rooted in phenomenology—of seeing the self as both seer and seen, as body and image.
Critically, the work sits within the discursive field of postmodern corporeal aesthetics. It navigates the shifting terrain between identity and performance, self and projection, gesture and inscription. It offers a counter-narrative to spectacle-driven representations of the female body by insisting on an introspective, almost sacred engagement with its subject. The dancer is not looked at; she is looking through, moving through, pressing the bounds of form and gravity. Series available as BNW or Color FineArt Prints.
and in color:
List of Photos at Saatchi Gallery with Links
