Self-portrait in the Other Space is a photographic series inspired by the heterotopias of Michel Foucault: “other spaces,” real yet separated from everyday experience, operating according to their own rules. For Foucault, the ship represents the heterotopia par excellence—a closed and isolated place, yet constantly in motion, separated from the rest of the world in space and time.
The series was developed between 2013 and 2021 inside different cruise ships. Despite formal variations, the photographed environments share recurring elements: artificial lighting, saturated colors, theatrical decoration, and muted atmospheres. These spaces form a self-contained system, where daily life is shaped by repetition and by the suspension of external references. Within this context, time appears uniform and cyclical. The cruise is not experienced as a journey, but as a state of permanence within a separated space, where days tend to resemble one another regardless of the changing port.
The work takes the form of a self-portrait, without narrative or autobiographical intent. A human presence appears within the spaces, often marginal or decentered, without acting or performing. The body introduces a scale of comparison with architecture, making visible the distance between the individual and the environment. The self-portrait is used as a tool for observation and relation rather than as an affirmation of identity.
Each photograph records a perceptual experience lived within a space that exists outside the ordinary, in another time. Self-portrait in the Other Space presents the image of an artificial, floating reality, suspended between reality and fiction, where space is not merely a container but a mental and emotional condition of existence.
