Street Side Mirages
In Street Side Mirages, Lucian Roman examines the street as a site of visual illusion, where glass surfaces transform everyday scenes into layered, unstable images. Reflections, displays, and architectural fragments overlap, creating moments in which the real and the artificial merge.
Mannequins, shop interiors, and passing figures appear entangled within the reflective skin of the city. Faces fragment, bodies echo one another, and familiar forms are interrupted by light, shadow, and transparency. The images resist clear spatial logic, encouraging the viewer to look slowly and question what is being seen.
Rather than documenting street life directly, Roman focuses on mediation — how urban environments are experienced through surfaces designed to attract, conceal, and distort. Street Side Mirages reveals a city where perception is constantly negotiated, and where identity becomes provisional, projected onto glass before dissolving back into the street.