Melancholy is an inner state, situated between slow disintegration, the loss of the self, and a profound sense of disorientation.
A condition suspended between emptiness, fragility, and a distant—almost unreachable hope.
What we often call “melancholy” is a deep and persistent pain—an infinite sadness one is forced to endure.
A form of neurosis, a silent nostalgia and a sense of emptiness that, like a cracked shadow, accompanies the individual at the very heart of life.
This diptych tells the story of the fragility of identity through bodies represented in different stages of dissolution; each figure embodies a moment of loss: of form, of memory, of contact… and ultimately of the self.