PROCELLA
Existence manifests itself at the shifting boundary between light and darkness.
In Procella, light and darkness define two forms of existence that meet without dissolving into one another. Their boundary is sharp, devoid of gradation, yet its position is never fixed: it crosses the face, divides its parts, and continually alters its configuration.
The human face does not emerge as a complete form, recognizable in its entirety. It manifests itself through fragments, portions of presence that appear and disappear in the contrast. Its parts can assume different positions and meanings, depriving identity of a single, unambiguous representation.
This instability opens onto a deeper dimension of the human condition. Impulses, desires, and feelings do not occupy clearly defined territories: they shift, overlap, and can emerge in unexpected directions. Like light and darkness, they remain distinct without ever being definitively separable.
In Procella, chiaroscuro is therefore not an effect used to represent the face, but the principle through which its form is continually redefined. Photography does not seek to establish what the human being is, but makes visible the instability of the forms through which it can manifest itself.
Existence reveals itself at the boundary: distinct in its presence, shifting in its position.