The Freewater project is a visual hymn to the rebellion of the body and
the conflict of the soul through a physical and spiritual journey into the
“Mare dimension.”
Each image is a testimony to the urgency of asserting an essential
freedom. A freedom that, is not only an escape from oppression, but also
a reconquest of one’s inner space through a cultural journey and a
spiritual transformation. In it, change is not expressed as a violent
rupture, but rather as a silent fermentation, like water bubbling up
before it becomes air.
Freewater is a collective breath, a ceaseless floating toward the
possibility of being beyond all imposed boundaries.
The videos, generated through the most advanced artificial intelligence
based technologies, explore the sea as a primordial space. They portray
the perpetual flow of water, from which, through the veil of the
protagonists, the ethereal dance of their souls emerges, embodying a
tension between the invisible and the visible, between the natural
element and its spiritual transfiguration.

CULTURAL VEIL

Veils, with their colors and textures interwoven with meanings, embody
the cultural structures they cover and, at the same time, oppress. Each
veil is a symbol of belonging, but also of limit, an invisible frontier that
separates and disciplines the body. Beneath this layer of codes and
expectations, the protagonists of the Freewater project-Muslim women
and Western women-find themselves united in the same struggle: to free
themselves from an imposed order and access an essential freedom. Their
quest is not just a geographical escape to a “new world,” but an inner
movement, a journey for self-determination. The veil is no longer a
definitive boundary, but a threshold that, once crossed, reveals the
possibility of a regained identity.
In this encounter between sea and fabric, between water and culture,
Freewater recounts a universal conflict: the body struggling to breathe,
the soul seeking space to expand. Thus, change becomes a necessary act
of rebellion, like the flow of water that erodes the edges and, drop by
drop, opens up pathways to new horizons.

“Because it is precisely the colors of the veils that have fascinated me so much and that for me overpower
the idea of the veil they are supposed to represent-I would have a hard time abandoning those colors, I
would rather keep them. I sense a disagreement between the freedom and vitality of those colors and the
idea of constraint of the veil.
What I see in the bright vividness of the colors in your photos is the struggle with the reflections of the light
underwater that draw a kind of canvas on the skin: a kind of struggle between a body still imprisoned (albeit
very dynamic in its movements in the water) and the values, ideas, and torments that animate the mind
toward a transformation and a journey that is by no means obvious. And for this I am reminded of Marcel
Proust: Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir
de nouveaux yeux.
Then if I continue to reflect, Ludwig Wittgenstein also comes to mind but it becomes too complicated to
explain his statement, which in the end simply means: I call red, what I mean red.
“Ich kenne das Rot, weil ich Rot-empfinde. Ich kenne das Rot, weil ich Englisch kann. Ich kenne das Rot, weil
ich sehe, daß dies ein roter Stuhl ist.”
“I know red because I perceive red. I know red because I know English. I know red because I see that this is a
red chair.”
This idea that values, ideas can also be transformed through a struggle of one’s body (of the journey) with
what it wants to imprison and control”

Luca giuliani

SEA DIMENSION

The sea presents itself as a primordial space, a cosmic womb that welcomes without
distinction, suspended between freedom and silence. Here all judgment dissolves in the
liquid vastness, and the rules of societies lose their grip, leaving the soul to sway
weightlessly. The water, with its slow and incessant movement, works a continuous
transformation: its waves, like invisible brushstrokes, sculpt and recreate a free identity
on a veil of becoming emotions. The sea becomes a loyal and sincere environment,
capable of accommodating every scattered fragment of being. It thus offers a place
where change is not imposed, but indulged like a natural current. In it, identity is not
fixed, but dissolves and recomposes, finding its authentic form in fluidity