Vulnerable Acts

by Elya Kezene

Vulnerable Acts is a photographic series that examines sensuality, solitude, and the porous boundary between self and the world. Across six works — Dissolution, Fracture, Cocoon of Light, Inhale, Between, and Vulnerability — the body negotiates openness and concealment through veils, meshes, and ephemeral gestures. The works register a movement: from dissolving into light (Dissolution), through splitting and multiplicity of presence (Fracture), to enclosure beneath a translucent sheath (Cocoon of Light), and onward to intimate acts of breathing and attentiveness (Inhale). Between sets the face on the threshold between revealing and withdrawing, and Vulnerability names the series’ central concern: how fragility becomes a way of presence and endurance rather than mere passivity. Taken together, these images propose vulnerability as a material condition — a space where risk and resilience, exposure and protection, softness and resolve coexist. The series reframes solitude not as absence but as an encounter: a field in which the senses test the boundary of the self and discover modes of being that are at once fragile and durable.