Single - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »

Part of my "Perfectly Imperfect" self-portrait project.

STATEMENT

The perfect geometric figure, the circle, is broken in my logo. This symbol reflects my vision and it is always associated with my slogan “I try to find BEAUTY in things that are IMPERFECT. Like ME”. I have always felt dissatisfied with communication in today's society. I have felt imperfect for many years in a world that promotes values of absolute perfection (bodies, careers, thoughts, families...) until I learned to turn my inadequacy into a plus. I bring the same poetics into my art. I began to distort everything I was given by society: everything seems to be too perfect, too schematic, too pre-set, too symmetrical and at the same time so terribly unreal. Always hovering between realism and surrealism, between irony and riddles of the modern man, I mix bright colors to give life to an environment where, thanks to my art and, above all, thanks to multiple self-portrait techniques, I can feel more comfortable, free and real.

DESCRIPTION

"Perfectly Imperfect" questions, deconstructs, and reinterprets the visual codes, aesthetic standards, and sterilized social models of contemporary life that are imposed on us daily. For years, I felt out of place, as if there were a model to follow that didn’t represent me. Then I realized that within that fracture lay my most authentic self. I began working with my image to convey what cannot be seen, what we tend to hide, what doesn’t conform. I was raised in an era where perfection is currency and imperfection means exclusion: we are not allowed to be fragile, suffering must not be shown, fear is only for the weak, stepping outside the frame draws too much attention. Failure is almost taboo. What I try to do is approach these themes in a new way: I love to flip the perspective. Each photograph is a staged fracture: of identity, of symmetry, of social expectations. The body becomes a vehicle for emotion, reflection, and provocation. A tool to speak about identity, social pressure, fragility, and resistance. If the self-portrait represents the moment of identification and acceptance of the image, then the environment becomes a mirror and container of identity. I aim to create a visual space where I can be free, vulnerable, sometimes unsettling. Human. I use conceptual and surreal language to distort, overlap, erase, exaggerate. Not to hide, but to reveal. Each image is a question, a gesture, a dialogue with the viewer.