Head is a photographic series inspired by classic Renaissance portraiture. In it, I photographed fish heads arranged as diptychs, each composition referencing traditional painted portrait formats.
At first glance, the images offer a serene, almost sacred stillness—tranquil, contemplative, and minimal. But a quiet dissonance emerges between the photographic calm and the reality of decapitated heads. The fish are "silent as fish," yet unmistakably severed.
The project explores the boundary between dignity and violence, between aesthetic beauty and discomfort. It asks whether decapitation, when framed in a dignified visual language, can transform into something contemplative—perhaps even beautiful.
This series also references rituals, altars, and votive offerings. It evokes taxonomies, reliquaries, and the tension between reverence and cruelty. The framing elevates the fish heads into a kind of quiet sanctity, simultaneously highlighting their lifelessness and symbolic weight.
Heads 1, Inkjet Print, 92×92 cm, 2015
Portrait (1–18), Inkjet Print, 24×30 cm each, 2015