Through this photographic series, POC5 explores the notion of bodily normality and how it shapes our relationship with ourselves and others. Inspired by the identification of the POC5 gene, associated with scoliosis, this project questions how bodies are perceived when they deviate from imposed standards. Growing up with a different morphology means learning to evolve in a world that tries to standardize rather than understand.

Bodies under tension, with artificial postures, are staged to question our relationship to appearance and identity. The body becomes a field of experimentation, a language in its own right. Through staging, carefully composed gestures and constructed postures, normative views are diverted to offer new perspectives on bodily diversity. Each image becomes an attempt at reappropriation, a way of deconstructing traditional views of the body and reinventing self-expression, while questioning how we present ourselves to the world and how we are perceived.

The visual elements used, postures, compositions are not mere artifices; they are the starting points for a dialogue in which the real and the imaginary intermingle. The aim is not simply to document reality, but to reinvent it, to open up new possibilities. This photographic work then becomes a space where the intimate and the universal meet, where the image questions as much as it reveals.

By deconstructing the notion of the ideal body, POC5 invites us to reflect on self-acceptance and the richness of diversity. This project is a call to look differently, to look beyond appearances, and to see each singularity not as an anomaly, but as a strength.