In the realm of myth, dream, and deep-rooted instinct, the boundary between human and animal dissolves. Metamorphosis: Behind the Human Being brings together four artists—Alessandro del Pero, Barbara Moura, Alina Sokolova, and Judith Wagner—who explore the fluid relationship between man and beast. Their works reject rigid hierarchies, presenting a world where animals, humans, and even objects exist on equal footing, shifting identities in unexpected ways.

The horse, a recurring figure in this exhibition, carries echoes of ancient myths and cinematic surrealism alike. From Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, where transformation exposes the fragility of human identity, to Buñuel’s dreamlike visions where logic unravels into primal instinct, the works on display blur the lines between civilization and wilderness. In surreal, dreamlike scenes, dogs cradle men, lovers exist alongside smoking stallions, and Amazonian warriors merge with their steeds. These transformations evoke Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where gods and mortals morph into animals, punished or liberated by their desires.

Yet the metamorphosis extends beyond flesh and fur. In Judith Wagner’s life-sized sculptures, "The Dancers,"human limbs seamlessly fuse with furniture—legs become table legs, arms stretch into the rigid contours of architectural structures. Here, the body itself becomes an artifact, a functional object caught between movement and stasis, flesh and construction. These hybrid forms echo the Surrealist tradition of unsettling juxtapositions, where the body is never just itself but something other—a framework, a machine, a vessel for transformation.

Through painting and sculpture, the artists construct a world where human, animal, and object intertwine, where bodies morph, and where dominance and submission are in constant flux. Is the animal within us something to tame or to embrace? Are we truly separate from the creatures we observe? Are we even separate from the objects we create?Cronenberg’s The Fly warns of the terror of unchecked transformation, while Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast suggests that monstrosity is often a matter of perspective.

Metamorphosis is not just a change—it is an unraveling, a return, a revelation. In this exhibition, the human-animal duality dissolves, the body becomes architecture, and identity is never fixed. What remains is something raw, untamed, and profoundly unfamiliar—yet strangely intimate.