The Sixth Silence
Zytha Lensen
Antwerp
About
Zytha Lensen is a photographer based in Antwerp, currently in the final year of the professional bachelor: Audiovisual Techniques - Photography at Sint Lucas. Her work focuses on identity, vulnerability, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Through carefully constructed photographic compositions, she explores how people position themselves within a group and how this influences the sense of self.
Working often in collaboration with performers and dancers, her images balance between intimacy and distance, capturing moments where identity feels both present and undefined. Her practice is driven by a curiosity for human connection and the quiet spaces in between.
Project
There is a moment when the sense of self begins to slip quietly, almost unnoticed. A moment where identity no longer feels stable, but shifts, dissolves, and becomes something harder to name.
The Sixth Silence moves within that space.
The images do not offer clear answers. Instead, they linger in the tension between being alone and being surrounded. Bodies appear close, almost intertwined.
In this closeness, the presence of others becomes essential: a quiet force that supports, carries, and gives shape when the self begins to feel undefined. Rather than dissolving the individual, the group creates a space in which one can exist without needing to be fully resolved.
This work unfolds in fragments allowing the viewer to move through it slowly. The photographs suggest a state rather than a statement: a quiet in-between, where identity is neither fully lost nor fully formed.
The Sixth Silence invites you to step closer, not to understand, but to experience. To recognize something intangible, something familiar perhaps, in the way we hold each other and in the way we sometimes disappear within that closeness.
