When we look at Nocturne, the setting changes completely. Dance leaves the traditional space behind and takes to the city — at night, outdoors, improvised. The dancers burst into public spaces with freedom and irreverence. Ethereal, daring, poetic, they dance on fountains and staircases, move through gardens and squares, inhabit architecture with the lightness of those who ask no permission — reinventing the city as stage. Here, the body no longer follows classical rhythm; it improvises with the unexpected, as if dancing were the only way to exist in the world. There is no choreography, only surrender. There is humour, lyricism, surprise. The city becomes both backdrop and score. The images are rawer, more immediate, yet technique remains — now in service of spontaneity and the improvisational nature that night allows. The camera, a silent accomplice, captures not only movement, but the sheer joy of dancing without audience, without rules, without safety net. Like a lucid dream where the tutu turns into a playful prop and any ground becomes stage.

Seen together, these two series reveal the emotional and visual breadth of Alwin Maigler’s work. While Nuances brings us closer to the precision and detail of the gesture; Nocturne invites us to discover the body in dialogue with freedom and the world beyond the studio.
Between the two, a poetic narrative of movement emerges — one where dance is not merely performance, but a form of presence in the world: whether silent or noisy, interior or urban, choreographed or improvised, disciplined or free.

All photographs exhibited are carbon prints, and were produced in Portugal by Mário P. Rodrigues (one of the few Masters in the whole world, still dedicated to this type of printing). This is an artisanal process of exceptional technical and aesthetic quality. This printing method lends each image a tactile density, a deep tonal richness, and extraordinary longevity. Every carbon print carries unique details within it, rendering each piece singular and special.

Each photograph thus becomes more than an image — it is an object crafted with the same care, intention, and sense of permanence as the dancer’s gesture inscribed into space.

Nuances & Nocturne is a true ode to the body as a territory of expression, and to photography as the place where the fleeting becomes form, and memory.”