Presented in 2021 at Centre d’Art Lo Pati in Amposta, La Muda  is the result of a creative process lasting over a year and a half, developed by artists Josep Piñol and Greta Díaz. The project took shape in an old agricultural warehouse on the outskirts of Tivenys, transformed into a studio, where both constructed an introspective visual universe, traversed by tensions between confinement and desire, transformation and resistance.

In La Muda, photography does not function as mere documentation but as a surface for affective projection and meaning-making. Detached from any documentary intentions, the images present themselves as scenic devices that suspend time and perform intimacy: they do not illustrate an experience, they embody it. Within them, loss, anxiety, desire, and transformation are not themes but formal forces that shape gesture, body, and atmosphere.

The images are built upon a refined scenographic logic, where each element sustains a constant tension between form and affection. Light does not serve a technical purpose here, but a structural one: it organizes space and defines the emotional tone of each scene. The human condition appears dislocated, in the process of transformation. The art direction does not accompany: it structures the meaning. Far from closing a narrative, the compositions open a field of inquiry around power, desire, submission, and death as a threshold or interruption.

The snail, a recurring presence in the series, operates as a liminal figure: a soft, exposed body retracting into its calcified architecture. This tension between withdrawal and desire runs throughout the entirety of the work. Its ambiguous anatomy and slow movement introduce an erotic, organic dimension, difficult to pin down. Moulting here is not a promise of renewal but a form of transit marked by vulnerability, detachment and the need to reconfigure the habitable.