There is a moment when proximity ceases to be recognition. Contemporary man draws closer to others, to things, to situations — and instead of seeing more clearly, loses focus. Closeness does not reveal: it dissolves.

This project emerges from direct observation, free of moral judgment: human beings have progressively lost the ability to recognize one another. Not for lack of contact — never before have we been so physically and digitally close — but through a slow process of dehumanization that has eroded authentic perception of the other. What remains are blurred presences, silhouettes sensed but never truly seen.

Figures emerge and dissolve. Form is intuited, presence is felt — but drawing closer does not clarify: it erases. Proximity, rather than revealing, obscures. Rather than connecting, isolates.

This is not a metaphor. It is the condition.

Inhuman neither denounces nor consoles. It observes the point at which the species stopped recognizing itself.

2007