« Empathy » continues my exploratory work on themes of identity transition, altered perception, and inner reflection. Here, I focus on the fragile and often confusing moment when an individual confronts the multiplicity of their inner voices, memories, instincts, and social masks at a breaking point where the self wavers between who it believes it is and what it hides from itself.

This composition, situated at the border between dream and uncanny strangeness, features naked bodies intertwined, screaming, united or frightened that embody fragments of the self, repressed aspects, but also the collective voice of humanity struggling to be heard.

The gesture of opening, literally of the throat, is metaphorical here: it is the cry from within, the attempt to give voice to the inexpressible. The aesthetic of concentric bands on the face and neck evokes circuits, energy flows, but also fault lines, interfaces between body and mind.

The minimalist geometric frame that surrounds the scene acts as a symbol of social constraint, a reminder of the normative mold in which we are all expected to exist. Yet the chaotic eruption of bodies within defies this framework, a gesture of rupture, a yearning to return to a raw, unfiltered humanity, which art can (and must) express today.

Through this work, I also question the contemporary identity crisis in a world saturated with technology, algorithms, and social masks. These « voices » we contain, repress, or project through networks are they not disembodying us? This is an attempt to return to flesh, to confusion, to the necessary irrationality of our humanity.

It is an inner scene, a silent scream.
It calls for the recognition of our contradictions, the listening to our inner voices, and above all, the urgent need for a more vulnerable and more truthful humanity in a world that too often values control and silence.