TITLE: Unbound Within Boundaries

This series explores the tension between constraint and liberation through the interplay of movement, light, and transparency. Two dancers, veiled in thin plastic, navigate a space that is both protective and restrictive—a metaphor for the unseen boundaries that shape our personal and collective lives.

Each gesture reveals a quiet resistance, an urge to expand beyond imposed limits—whether societal, emotional, or self-imposed. The plastic veil functions as a liminal skin, both hiding and exposing, muffling and amplifying the dancers’ presence.

Shot in black and white, the absence of colour intensifies form, contrast, and emotion, allowing texture and gesture to speak. The resulting images are a meditation on vulnerability, resilience, and the beauty that arises within limits—not beyond them.

AUTHOR: Maurizio Cigognetti (Australia)

Maurizio Cigognetti is an Italian-born visual artist currently based in Australia. After many years working as a commercial film director and photographer, he has recently returned to a more personal, poetic form of visual storytelling. His images often explore the human body, movement, and the subtle tension between presence and absence. Working primarily in black and white, he seeks to convey emotion through restraint, atmosphere, and ambiguity. Photography has become, for him, a quiet space for reflection — a way to listen rather than speak and to observe without intrusion.