Finalists – Prix Picto de la Mode 2025 : Sacha Luisada

Sacha Luisada, trained in architecture and photography, explores the boundary between the real and the surreal through precise manipulation of light and the body. In his series Anatomy of Fluids, he examines the relationship between the body, light, and water, using distortions and contortions to create images where human and liquid forms merge. This work, at the crossroads of reality and dream, evokes the fragility of the world and the creative and destructive power of water.

Born in Créteil in 1997, Sacha Luisada initially pursued studies in architecture. After obtaining his architecture degree, he joined the Gobelins school in 2020, where he fully dedicated himself to photography and found his true fulfillment. The following year, he won the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation’s Vocational Award, a recognition that opened the doors to his first solo exhibition, At the Heart of Architecture. His passion for studio work, light, and the freedom it offers naturally led him to explore the world of fashion.
Alongside his editorial work for fashion magazines, his artistic research took him into the surreal. He then began to play with photography and the limits of the medium to depict a world where dreams, nightmares, and realities intertwine. His images ultimately became a way to elevate the strange and break free from the monotony of everyday life.

Anatomy of Fluids is the result of a year-long visual and artistic exploration, questioning the relationship between the body, light, and water, the backbone of our world. This photographic series draws its source from a poetic dialogue between the geometric and liquid form of the human silhouette and clothing. Precisely assembled under light, these two entities become interchangeable and merge into one.
Through a process of staging, bodily contortions, second skins, movements, and distortions bring this series to life, situated at the border between the real and the surreal. Like being absorbed by a black hole, light flows toward the lens, undergoing deformations and alterations. Anatomy of Fluids thus stands at the crossroads of concrete documentation and the softness of a dream.
In a context where the relationship between humans and nature calls for a reconsideration of our lifestyles, this series evokes the imprint of water on everything around us. Water, the origin of life and all human creation, is both a creative and destructive force. It thus becomes a visual metaphor for the beauty and fragility of the world.

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