Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »

Photography is a human gaze that stops viewing the world with stoicism; instead, it relies on oblivion to photograph a 'reconstructed reality' in a static manner.

The photographic work “Mood” serves, through visual narration, as a reminder of the visibility of emotional states. Moods are embodied by the human body and are experienced based on how we perceive the reality of a fleeting or permanent condition.

Through this work, I encounter a personal challenge as I become an observer of everything, almost ritualistically, evoking the emotional oscillations that disturb the human psyche.

The visual exploration of the relationship between the subjectivity of moods and the stimuli that trigger them was conducted over approximately two years. Since moods can be experienced from even the slightest reason, I had to train myself to recognise their presence in the most unexpected situations. This was the primary reason for taking a large number of photographs.

Constantly tracing their moody path, I conveyed a sequence of emotional states, from the interiority of the soul to the extroverted permanence of the visual impression. An introspective project of invisible points, surrounded by uncharted faces, surreal depictions, untouched expressions, unnoticed details, headless bodies, shining rays of light, questionable universes as well as emerging narratives that appear unpredictably in time. Through my wandering in the intangible realm of emotional wealth, I realised that human fragility will linger in limbo over time.

During the development of the work, influenced by the complexity of the mental mechanism, I was concerned not only with the causes of mood formation but also with what contributes to constructing an emotional state. Thus, through the practice of analysis, I realised that moods are the very anatomy of inhabiting the self.