Each work in the Fantastic Portrait series by Andrea Morucchio is composed of photographic tiles depicting fragments of butterfly wings. By deliberately using fewer tiles than in his previous works, Morucchio creates a powerful sense of transfiguration in his subjects. The facial features become deconstructed and distorted, giving rise to figures that pulse with an expressive, almost euphoric energy—yet remain unsettling, as if emerging from the depths of the unconscious. These portraits stand as both formal and conceptual descendants of Surrealism’s “psychic automatism,” echoing its spontaneous and intuitive creative process.