Galeria SENDA presents Fluctus, a new project by Xavi Bou that condenses, in suspended images, the first seconds of a bird’s flight. Recorded in super slow motion from a top-down perspective, the works reveal the singularity of each gesture, the inner structure of movement, and the morphological and chromatic diversity of each species.

Unlike his renowned Ornithographies, where the focus lay on collective flight and interaction between individuals, Fluctus shifts attention toward the singular body. By isolating the bird against a white or black background, Bou highlights the richness of its forms and colors, which tend to dissolve in group flight. The body thus becomes a living trace: a figure in transition between impulse and direction, between الأرض and air.

The title, from the Latin fluctus (wave), refers to the temporal expansion of the gesture. Each image functions as a suspended wave that condenses past, present, and future, activating a slowed-down gaze that invites us to observe what usually goes unnoticed. Rather than freezing an instant, Bou constructs a fluid temporality: a way of seeing time as natural choreography.

Created in collaboration with ornithologists and wildlife recovery centers, the project guarantees an ethical and respectful approach: the birds are recorded at the moment of their release, under controlled and safe conditions. Fluctus is conceived as a growing collection, in which each image is presented printed at real scale, evoking the ancient cabinets of curiosities.

In dialogue with the tradition of these cabinets—not as accumulations of rarities, but as devices of visual interrogation—Bou proposes an experience that dissolves the boundaries between art, science, and technology. His images do not document; they reveal: invisible choreographies, trajectories that escape ordinary vision, patterns that remind us that the natural world is not an object of control, but a sensitive territory where everything is in relation.

In a time marked by ecological crisis and technological acceleration, Fluctus is a call for perceptual empathy. An invitation to look with other eyes, to think of animals not as symbols or exotic creatures, but as companions in existence with whom we share a planet and a common destiny.