Moments that never synced

“Contretemps: Moments that never synced" explores the liminal spaces between connection and isolation. Those fragile instances when people orbit each other but fail to converge – not through absence of desire, but through subtle misalignments of timing, perception, and emotional rhythm.

Critics' Choice 2025 (Series)
Thank you for sharing your work with us. Looking at your images as a whole, without reading the P.S., I felt like being in front of a challenging subjective work with poetic identity. I assumed that the subject is metaphorical and based on personal symbols. This fact makes it cryptic and open to more than one interpretation, but there is a common feeling of a presence that wanders in a universe full of wonders where everything is possible and nothing is certain. The use of B&W increases the abstraction and unites unconnected elements, creating an artistic and attractive result. I could say that images please our eyes while activate our minds. The personal perception and representation of reality and the eerie atmosphere lead us to use our imagination, memories, and experiences to build content. So, you give us the freedom to appropriate the work in order to understand it and connect with your vision (in a loose and abstract way, of course). After all, the important in works like yours is not the full understanding, but the transmission of a consistent general feeling connected with the concept and your intention. In my opinion, most of the images fulfil this goal, especially those where there is a natural presence (like plants) and an abstract background that looks like outer space or a visualization of energy and time around us. Although small circular formations seem to symbolize human presence and human relationships through failed encounters or parallel paths that do not meet (as you imply in the P.S.), their geometrical shape is not so able to lead us to living creatures but to their traces in space and time (moments, actually). For this reason, the natural elements inside the images are important, as I have already told you. Images 1 (mainly) and 4 somehow stand out because of visible direction and artificiality of the materials and do not transmit the described feeling as the rest. The result is a construction, an artwork, with high aesthetic and artistic quality but lacks the atmosphere and the transmitted feeling of the rest images. I believe that if you isolate images 2, 3, 5, 6, and look at them, you will understand what I mean.

Regardless from the above notice, the project has originality, artistic identity, and high quality, making it able to stand on its own in “respected international platforms”. Its most significant feature is its subjectivity, which increases its authenticity and show us your subjective view of reality. We can also see that you are a thoughtful, creative, unconventional, and sensitive person with high aesthetic criteria and a restless spirit. You look for the exceptional in the ordinary with a philosophical mood, and you make it visible by investing in abstraction, the balance between randomness and direction, and the transmitted feeling. It seems that you are a perfectionist who wants to control everything inside the frame, and the fact that you leave a door open to randomness and chaos proves it. I like the way you visualize abstract notions like order and chaos without making predictable choices but staying faithful to your subjective visual language. So, stay on the same truck, show us the way you see the world and invest in storytelling as regards the building of a series.

Sander, my involvement with your work was an exciting and pleasant experience. I wish you good luck, and I'm looking forward to seeing more from you in the future.

 All the best

A.