PROJECT CURVES

Year: 2022–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)

CURVES is a long-term portrait project exploring the relationship between identity, perception, and the physical properties of the human body.

Photographed through the surface of water, each image captures real-time optical distortions caused by movement and fluid dynamics. These are not post-produced effects, but physical interventions that alter how the subject appears to the camera — and to the viewer.

By placing a transparent barrier between the lens and the face, the project raises questions about the limits of representation. It challenges the traditional understanding of the photographic portrait as a fixed likeness and instead suggests a more fluid, unstable notion of self.

The series is grounded in a simple idea: that the human body, made mostly of water, responds to external forces. The distortions in these images reflect emotional pressure, societal expectations, and the desire for control over how we are seen.

What remains is not a perfect likeness, but a psychological imprint — an image shaped as much by its surrounding as by the subject itself.