Corina Vettore

metamorphosing 4 u
is a two-channel video and installation that explores self-awareness, visibility, and the construction of identity under the pressure of being perceived.

The story follows a strange, featureless creature waking in a desert, who discovers a pair of eyes buried in the sand. With this comes not only the ability to see, but the unsettling realization of being seen. This moment of recognition initiates a transformation. As the creature moves through the landscape, it begins to adorn itself with ornaments it finds (shoes, a comb, nails, eyes, a purse, a phone) as though trying to satisfy the gaze watching it. These objects are fragile, absurd, and uncomfortable, echoing the tension between performance and authenticity, belonging and self-erasure. In the end, the creature disappears from its skin, leaving only the adornments behind, a deflated form and the traces of a self that may have never been real.

The video is accompanied by a series of full-body prints of the creature displayed on the walls, dressed in variations of the same ceramic ornaments. These prints resemble life-sized skins or ghosts of identity, flattened, performative versions of the creature's transformation. They play with illusion, surface, and absence.

The installation reflects on how we construct ourselves in response to the gaze of others, how we perform, adorn, and eventually dissolve. It's a delicate, surreal meditation on shame, desire, and the instability of identity when shaped by external eyes.