"Through the Veil" is a surreal photographic exploration that distorts our perceptions of scale, identity, and reality. Through unsettling, dreamlike images, we invite you to delve into the subconscious and confront the fragile boundaries between self and environment.
Each photograph in this curation creates a distorted version of reality where the familiar becomes grotesque, dreamlike, and, at times, comically unsettling.
From the figure dwarfed by a flower of impossible size to the man holding a giant, surreal ball that overpowers his own presence, these images evoke a world where scale becomes disorienting. The distortion of size—whether in the overwhelming flower or the absurd proportions of the mushroom—calls attention to the ways in which reality can be manipulated, questioning how our bodies relate to the world around us.
A man dressed in a disco suit, caught in the suspended animation of an era long past, evokes a sense of temporal dislocation. The juxtaposition of an individual against the backdrop of a surreal world reinforces the exhibition's theme of isolation and identity. In a similar vein, the image of smoke overtaking a person’s head speaks to the dissolution of the self, where thoughts, emotions, and even our very consciousness become clouded, elusive, and uncontrollable.
The photograph of a nude woman in a dark, foreboding forest is a meditation on vulnerability and the wild, untamed forces of nature that lie just beneath the surface of civilization. Her presence in this eerie landscape speaks to a primal state of being, where the boundaries of selfhood and environment collapse into one another.
The image of two women embracing, their faces replaced by giant Google eyes, embodies the overwhelming influence of technology and the dehumanizing aspects of modern life. Their blank, all-seeing eyes transform them into symbols of surveillance and the loss of personal identity in an increasingly digitized world, where the individual becomes subsumed by the collective gaze.
Enter a space where the strange is not only possible but inevitable. Each image is a fragment of a dream—or perhaps a nightmare. What do you see?
