The series of original nude photographs constitutes the most personal dimension of the Punto Cieco project—the phase in which research on the masks is translated into an autonomous and contemporary visual language.
In Giuseppe Foglia’s photographs, the masks are once again worn by nude bodies, as they were in Eyes Wide Shut, but within a markedly different context: darker, more abstract, and suspended outside any narrative framework. The images bring about a renewed engagement with themes central to the film, including theatre and ritual, appearance and deception, the grotesque, doubling, sexuality, and desire.
The raw, theatrical presence of the masks counteracts the living skin and its natural movement. From this encounter, a visual strain emerges, one that traverses the image, in which the human figure no longer appears as a continuous surface but as a field of fractures, distances, and interrupted gazes. It is within this space that the “blind spot” (Punto Cieco) takes shape: where vision hesitates and the gaze becomes aware of its own fragility.
The photographic work is currently in progress. The project remains open to new collaborations with models, exhibition venues, institutional partners, and supporters interested in participating in the forthcoming phases of production.
Those wishing to contribute concretely to the project may acquire a fine-art print of the Punto Cieco poster. Proceeds directly support the production of new photographs.
