ON THE THRESHOLD
“We are always on the verge of becoming.” – Anaïs Nin.
To exist is to be in constant change, suspended between what we have been and what we could become.
Every threshold we cross transforms us, letting us glimpse new and uncertain possibilities.
At twenty years this tension becomes a daily experience: the past is still near, but no longer habitable, while the future opens wide in front.
It is a frontier land where identity is constantly redefined, a fragile balance between permanence and change.
So what does it mean to be today on the verge of becoming?
Through the story of Ilaria, a 19-year-old girl who embodies the transition from adolescence to adulthood, visual storytelling explores this peculiar liminal condition.
His path becomes a mirror of a generation that moves between expectations and uncertainties, between the need to take root and the desire to get lost to find themselves.
Photography becomes an instrument of investigation on this threshold of transformation, telling the contrast between intimate spaces and boundless horizons, between the security of the house and the attraction to the unknown.
The portraits are mixed with fragments of diary writing, symbolic details and dream visions, composing an emotional mosaic in constant mutation.
In this intermediate space, time seems to accelerate and become thin simultaneously: it is the age of choices, sudden emptiness, fears that become tangible and freedom that sometimes weighs more than you expect.
“On the threshold” is not just tale of a single story but it aims to explore the vulnerability and strength of an age that hesitates and leaps forward, that gets lost and finds itself, that lets time pass through without ever stopping looking.
Year of production: from 2024, on going
