“Transfigurations” is a visual project that explores the relationship between the human body and the act of looking through glass blocks (pavés), a thick, opaque material that distorts reality and invites the viewer to question their perception of the body and intimacy. Through a series of images, the body is presented as fragmented, distorted, and transformed, prompting reflection on how glass serves as a barrier that alters both the physical form and the emotional perception of the subject being observed.

The glass blocks, with their ability to blur clarity and turn the concrete into something ethereal and dispersed, become a symbol of the disconnection between the visible and the real. The images depict bodies that seem to escape defined form, whose flesh expands and becomes unrecognizable, creating an almost abstract aesthetic that dissolves the boundaries between the human and the immaterial. Through this process of distortion, the viewer is invited to engage in a voyeuristic gaze—one that never fully captures the essence of what is being seen.

In a contemporary context, this project connects with the massive use of screens and devices that mediate our perception of the body and reality. Like the glass blocks, screens act as filters that distort what we see, altering the clarity and authenticity of the image. “Transfigurations” raises questions about how technology has transformed our way of seeing, and how constant digital mediation modifies our relationship with the body, with intimacy, and with visual truth.

The body seen through the glass blocks becomes a representation of contemporary fragmentation: the physical distortion is a metaphor for the emotional and perceptual distortion we experience in a world saturated with images and screens. The flesh expands, the contours blur, and what was once tangible becomes an abstract image, difficult to define. This project invites us to explore the fragility of perception, to reconsider how we look and what it means to observe in a world where the digital and the physical, the clear and the blurred, coexist in constant transformation.

“Transfigurations” is, therefore, a visual reflection on the body and the act of looking—on how glass, whether it be a block or a screen, transforms what we perceive and how we face reality in fragmented ways, through a lens that inevitably alters what we attempt to understand.