Metanoia

Narrative-based artist film and photographic series that constructs a highly staged exploration of psychological fracture and the possibility of inner transformation. The title, drawn from the Greek μετάνοια—implying both spiritual reversal and profound internal change—frames the work as an inquiry into the liminal space between collapse and renewal.

Through elaborately composed scenes and a heightened cinematic visual language, the work unfolds as an allegorical descent into a fractured consciousness. Carefully orchestrated mise-en-scène, controlled lighting, and suspended temporality contribute to a sense of psychological tension, where the search for redemption gives way to a more unsettling confrontation with selfhood. The resulting images inhabit a threshold between illusion and reality, belief and delusion, evoking an atmosphere of heightened theatricality.

Metanoia engages with archetypal and religious symbolism to question the structures through which suffering, faith, and healing are performed and perceived. Rather than offering linear resolution or catharsis, the work proposes a more ambiguous trajectory—where transformation is not the product of triumph, but the emergence of grace through vulnerability, rupture, and the acceptance of inner fracture as a generative space.