Skin & Fragments -  Sens

Sens sits between the body seen as a whole and the body read through isolated fragments.
Each image lives inside a circular frame that limits vision on purpose. Instead of showing the whole figure, the photographs move in closer and closer, from the complete body down to single details, skin, hands, eyes, mouth, feet, the small textures that usually go unnoticed.
As the field of vision narrows, identity gets harder to pin down. The body stops being recognised by its overall shape and starts being read through the intimacy of its surfaces. Every fragment carries its own presence, asking for a slower, more attentive kind of looking.
The circular frame works both as a limit and as an invitation. It hides as much as it shows, pushing the viewer to rebuild the absent body through memory and imagination.
Inside Skin & Fragments, Sens looks at how photography turns fragments into full experiences, suggesting that presence can come through more strongly via partial vision than through total exposure.

Developed within the Unclearpicture collaboration with writer Michel Maurel

Extreme close-up of a woman’s lips isolated inside a dark circular frame.
Extreme close-up of a blue eye and surrounding skin emerging from shadow.
Close fragment of a forehead and hairline against a black circular field.
Frontal close-up of a woman’s eyes and face, framed as a dark circular portrait.
Close view of a shoulder and upper chest isolated against black.
Extreme close-up of bent knees within a circular black frame.
A hand crosses the curve of a hip in a tightly cropped skin study.
Hands rest across the lower abdomen in a circular close-up.
Minimal close-up of a navel and smooth abdominal skin.
Close view of shoulder blades and the upper back within a dark frame.
Extreme close-up of a breast and nipple, reduced to a circular study of skin.
Close fragment of an upper arm and elbow against black.
Close-up of the lower back and crease of the body in muted light.
Bare feet stand together on a pale floor inside a circular frame.
Extreme close-up of toes and the sole of a foot against dark.
A full frontal nude figure appears small within a black circular field.
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