CURVES SERIES

CURVES SERIES

Year: 2019–ongoing
Medium: Portrait photography through water (medium format)
Technique: Optical distortion, no digital manipulation

Exhibitions:
– Cooltajner – Koridor, Považská Bystrica (2024)
– A4 – Zine Launch, Bratislava (2025)
– OFF Bratislava (2024)

We often seek beauty in control — in the perfect line, the balanced form, the image that never shifts. But what if beauty exists only in moments of movement, when things are free to change?

CURVES was born from that question. Each photograph is created live, through the physical surface of moving water, captured directly in-camera without any digital intervention. The water reacts to every vibration, bending and reshaping the human face in unpredictable ways. Because it never stays the same, each photograph is unique — it can never be repeated.

For me, water is not just a medium but a metaphor for the forces that shape us. When it is still, nothing changes; but once it moves, the reflection transforms. The same happens to us — we are bent, stretched, and reshaped by the world around us. These transformations may look like distortions, but they reveal something more real than perfection ever could.

CURVES is about the freedom of letting things move, about finding beauty in instability, and recognising that our identities, like water, are never fixed — only alive in constant transformation.