CONCEPT
AERONAUTICA is built around the desire to follow one’s own dream — the quiet persistence that carries people through uncertainty, change, and return. Flight appears in the work not as achievement, but as a symbol of this movement: the decision to continue despite doubt, distance, or interruption.
The series unfolds through constructed photographic scenes in which the familiar and the improbable coexist. Landscapes remain recognisable, gestures remain ordinary, yet elements within the frame suggest that the world is capable of transformation. Winged vessels appear as visual carriers of this idea — objects that embody aspiration while remaining grounded in everyday reality.
At the center of the work are people. Relationships, care, hesitation, friendship, family, and the search for peace of mind form the emotional structure of the images. The scenes move through moments of harmony and tension, acknowledging both the energies that guide us forward and those that cause us to pause, lose direction, or return to ourselves.
Mallorca provides the conditions in which this journey becomes visible. The island’s proximity of nature, tradition, and daily life allows the images to hold both beauty and vulnerability without contradiction. Sea, mountain, villages, and working landscapes create a world in which movement outward and movement inward can exist simultaneously.
Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, AERONAUTICA invites viewers to recognise fragments of their own experience — moments of departure, reunion, doubt, care, and renewal. The images do not resolve these tensions; they hold them.
The work is informed by painters who understood how narrative can exist within stillness. Carl Spitzweg’s scenes — placing solitary figures, quiet activities, and subtle humor within expansive environments — offer an important reference point. His ability to suggest story without resolving it resonates with the approach of AERONAUTICA, where meaning emerges through observation rather than explanation.
In this way, the project reflects on belonging, love, resilience, and the human need to seek meaning beyond immediate circumstances. The dream of flight becomes a quiet proposition: that movement is possible, and that returning — to people, to place, to oneself — is part of the same journey.
