“There Is an Unseen World Behind Our World.”
The strangeness of the inexplicable: that which feels familiar and alien at the same time. A hidden world pulsing beneath the surface of the everyday.
Paranormal emerges from an unsettling sensation—from the urge to tell concealed, surreal, disquieting stories, and from the need to imagine a reality in which forced disconnection from environment and time gives way, in reverse, to a deep longing for human connection.

The collection is born from the anxiety produced by events that erupt into our lives without warning, forcing us to improvise new ways of existing. Unforeseen situations that, over time, begin to speak to us about life itself and its strategies for survival. We all recognise this experience; each of us has lived through it, in our own way, in recent years.

My starting point was the imagined identity of a group of characters—enchanted women and men—inhabiting a complex moment, as if caught inside a strange spell. Each look reveals an emotional core oscillating between nostalgia and strength, between physical fragility and the determination to move forward. This human sway—the paradox of our present and of the human condition itself—runs through the entire collection.

The project took shape through twelve images by Eugenio Recuenco, conceived as fragments of a visual narrative. Each photograph functions as an interlude: a moment just before or just after an unspecified, yet always decisive, event. The settings were built physically, one by one, like a film set—twelve rooms in an American roadside motel, suspended somewhere between the 1950s and today. Spaces of passage, where it is unclear how or why one has arrived, ruled by an atmosphere of timeless unreality: suspended time, almost a limbo.

The inspiration connects to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film that engraved into our collective memory the melody D–E–D–D–G as a chant of longing and hope. There, as here, characters search for answers to an inexplicable mystery that transforms their lives, while an improbable landscape—Devils Tower in Wyoming—becomes an absolute protagonist.

In Paranormal, the narrative fractures into clues: garments that read like signs, gestures that leave traces, spaces that act as silent witnesses. There is no closed story—only open images that ask for the viewer’s gaze to complete their meaning. Everything unfolds in an intermediate state, a parallel dimension where the real and the unreal blur.

These women—intuitive, powerful, yet also fragile—inhabit a moment of transition, as if passing between two worlds. Their bodies, dressed in these looks, reveal an unstable balance between vulnerability and resistance, between the nostalgia for what has been lost and the fierce hope of what is still to come.

Ultimately, Paranormal is an exercise in connecting with the invisible: a reminder that beyond tangible reality there is always another, secret one, revealed in the interstices, in minimal gestures, in what cannot be explained: an unseen, yet felt world that accompanies us always, like a faithful shadow.

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Photographer: Eugenio Recuenco
Art directos: Eric Dover
Stylist: Yolanda Leal
Photography assistant: Camilo Germain & Luis Kav
Art assistant: Marisa Wanda, Donna Salama, Juan Martín
Stylist assistant: Andrés Zuluaga
Post-production Digital: Paz Otero
Production: weHELPstudio
Make up & hair: Lewis Amarante, Alba Córdoba, Eva Gamero, Eddy Piñero
Models: Jazmine (Renato Moreira), Carmen Almanza (Tribe Models), Alicja Kosiba (Tribe Models), Feifei Zhang (Tribe Models)