Mettili in risalto

“When the Gods Fall Asleep” is a photographic project that explores the experience of transgender in Italy, where existing outside the gender binary often means living in a permanent state of displacement — from body, language, law, and belonging. Through intimate portraits, gestures,and details , the work traces the emotional and physical geography of those who inhabit the space between inner truth and social recognition, between who they are and where society allows them to exist.

Displacement here is a quiet exile from self and society, a condition of being unrecognized within one’s own body, family, and nation. It is the dissonance between authenticity and conformity, between visibility and safety. The subjects of this work move through landscapes that often deny them protection, yet they transform this dislocation into a place of becoming. Through light, gesture, and self-representation, they reinhabit their bodies, turning alienation into resistance, and resistance into homecoming.