/ 2025 / Fine Art / People

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Maryna Overchuk, Ukraine
• Studio
  private person Maryna Overchuk

In a bare concrete room with skylights, a ballet dancer moves alone — without stage, audience, or applause. His body balances between vulnerability and quiet strength. Black tights outline muscular precision; transparent chiffon clings like a shadow of emotion — unspoken but felt.
This is not a prison, but an underground stage for an internal performance. Each leap and pause is a ritual of purification, an act of presence.
What remains when only the body speaks? Can solitude lead to freedom?
“In silence, the body speaks louder than words.”