Unstable Paradise — Mediterranean Melt

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Mediterranean Melt explores the fragile realities we construct around places of leisure. Developed from photographs taken along the beaches of the Côte d'Azur, the series is transformed through vintage French optical glass, introducing subtle distortions that unsettle the image.

Echoing the sensory conditions of the Mediterranean—heat, glare, and atmospheric shimmer—familiar scenes of sunbathers, umbrellas, and open horizons begin to soften and dissolve. What appears at first as an idyllic landscape gradually reveals itself as something less stable, shaped as much by perception and memory as by place.

The Côte d’Azur exists as both location and image: a landscape long defined by desire, nostalgia, and collective imagination. In this work, that image begins to shift. Bodies and horizons remain visible, yet hover between clarity and abstraction, resisting the expectation of permanence.

Oscillating between photography and painterly abstraction, Mediterranean Melt invites a slower way of seeing. It suggests that paradise is not a fixed condition, but a delicate construction—one that can dissolve with even the slightest shift in perception.