WAYS12 — photographic practice

The distinctiveness of the body lies in its ability to unite individual history and social experience, personal memories and interaction with the external environment. At the center of this practice, the body is understood as a threshold existing between a person’s inner world and the gaze of society.

The body keeps memory. It preserves not only age or physical changes, but also experiences, losses, fears, pleasure, illness, touch, and time. Every lived moment leaves a trace, even when it can no longer be recalled through words.

Photography remains an intentional act. Within this practice, it is used not to create an idealized image, but as a possibility to temporarily remove the body from habitual systems of evaluation.

Fragmentary framing is one of the recurring artistic methods of the practice. By excluding the face or the complete silhouette, the photograph addresses the way contemporary culture perceives a person through separate parts of the body. This visual fragmentation reflects a mechanism of social perception in which a person ceases to be experienced as a whole and becomes a collection of fragments — parts that either correspond or fail to correspond to external expectations.

The practice develops as a continuous archive, where each series becomes a new record of human experience.

It does not propose a new standard, nor does it oppose one form of the body to another. Instead, the practice attempts to temporarily suspend the habit of evaluation and shift attention from conformity toward human presence.

If the body truly preserves lived experience, then this experience of presence can also become part of memory. Not as a statement, but as a possibility — even if only for a moment — to exist without the demand to be liked and without the need to earn the right to be seen.

Beauty remains a cultural category rather than a universal measure. Ideas of beauty are shaped by social environments and are often perceived as personal choices. The practice does not focus on conformity to these ideas, but on individual characteristics that have already become part of the body and lived experience.