Inspired by art that refuses to look back. The possession of a back that silent, unseen side of ourselves reminds us that vision is always partial, that every image hides as much as it reveals.
From Vermeer’s introspective painter, absorbed in his own act of creation, to Friedrich’s solitary wanderer, facing the immensity of the sublime, to Man Ray’s surreal muse in Ingres’ Violin, where the back becomes both instrument and enigma.
The Back Figure (Rückenfigur) transforms turning away into a gesture of invitation.
To look at the back is to look at distance itself at the fragile boundary between seeing and not seeing, knowing and imagining.