The Elective Affinities” is a photographic narrative exploring the fragile connections between two female figures who appear as reflections, projections, desires and refusals. They inhabit interiors that seem suspended in time, where symbolic objects — apples, masks, mirrors — weave a silent dialogue about identity, intimacy and the unspoken ties that unite and divide.
The title recalls Goethe’s novel, yet here the concept is not interpreted through chemistry or romance, but through visual allegory. The bodies are not portrayed as individuals, but as presences that mirror one another, dissolve, and reappear in gestures that oscillate between closeness and distance.
Symbolic objects are central: the apple evokes temptation and knowledge, the mask questions identity and disguise, the mirror doubles perception and fractures the sense of the real. Light plays a crucial role, sculpting the figures with a painterly quality that recalls metaphysical painting and theatrical tableaux.
The work seeks to explore the tension between appearing and being, between self and other, between the visible and the hidden. “The Elective Affinities” does not aim to illustrate a story but to stage a constellation of signs, emotions, and silences, leaving the viewer the task of deciphering the nature of the bond between the two presences. It is a meditation on the power of affinities, elective or inevitable, to shape identity and desire.”*
