"Negativisions" is an experimental photographic project inspired by the fashion and surrealist style of the 1930s, exploring the phenomena of transparency, layering, ephemerality, and illusion, presented as a montage of layers of negatives printed on photographic film.

Using the aesthetics of the photographic negative, in this series I wish to capture the spirit of that era, referencing the first fashion photographs by avant-gardists such as Man Ray, Georges Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst, Maurice Tabard, and Ruth Bernhard, recalling the heyday of Vogue and its dictates of classic elegance, often veiled in experimentation. Today, exactly one hundred years after the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby," this project returns not only to the atmosphere of the Jazz Age, but above all to the photographic techniques of the interwar period, simultaneously grappling with what remains of it today, in photography and in aesthetic sensibility itself: melancholic ambiguity, repetition, abstraction, and multilayeredness, redefining the concept of portraiture and the nude.

The 13 works that comprise this project are the result of my theoretical research, as an art historian, on the history of the surrealist aesthetics in fashion photography in the 20th & 21st centuries, as well as addressing the unpredictable nature of the negative as both a primary and target material in photographic practice. This project examines photographic matter "from the inside," subjecting it to manipulation and the power of chance, which also reinforces the philosophy of avant-garde experimentation. "Negatywsions" is an essay about a style that passes, though never completely disappears – elusive and ephemeral, it leaves a mark on the photographic film of history in the form of an experiment.