Femina Aliena

Femina Aliena is a photographic installation conceived as a kind of taxonomic observation of a being. The female body remains recognisable as an anthropomorphic form while simultaneously entering a state of visual otherness. The work explores how perception produces identity and how strongly the act of seeing determines whether a body appears familiar, distant or transformed.

The installation is arranged on a single wall and divided into two connected image blocks. The upper block presents a series of photographs in their original visual logic. The second block, placed directly below, shows the same images in an altered chromatic progression. What changes is not the subject itself but the conditions through which it is perceived, opening a second visual register within the same installation.

Standing before the wall, the viewer moves between two modes of seeing. Recognition turns into estrangement, closeness into distance, and bodily presence into surface, structure and visual terrain. Colour functions here as a device of displacement, revealing how unstable habits of perception can be and how quickly familiarity dissolves once the parameters of vision begin to shift.

Through repetition, variation and comparison, the installation develops an almost classificatory order. Identity does not appear as a fixed quality but as something assembled in the process of perception. Femina aliena opens a speculative space in which femininity feels both present and remote, while the boundary between inner and outer image states becomes fluid.