Simple Things
(2018 - 2021)
(2018 - 2021)
With this photo series, I’ve been learning to view differently the home space where I lived at the moment. The project emerged from an urge to incessantly film something rather than from a particular image. At first, I was focused on mundane things that we use at home. I was seduced by their transience, their finiteness in every possible human-made routine variation. All of them were as short-lived as they seemed unattractive to the very art of photography.
For me, though, all of them comprised both fragility and tension of the incomparable; things that transpired in compositions created by me appeared to be rooted in unfamiliar realities.
I’ve seized this surrealism. I have been doing what I felt, saw, and imagined, sometimes only guided by the items of a given space, be it a kitchen, a garage, a balcony, etc. This artistic intersection and combination of photography and sculpture that consisted of personal items was fiercely attractive.
When the home space became too cramped, there was an urge to bring something from beyond the house: multicolor tiles, shattered glass, foam plastic… all sorts of construction debris that further emphasized the transience of time. Interestingly, the new images based on all this debris were not sullen – rather, they conveyed an immense vitality and nascence of something new from this infinite routine.
If I were to use just one phrase to describe the entire polyphony of Simple Things, all these new compositions that emerged from familiar objects, I would have chosen the following words: the ability of staying alive.
*This is a short selection of pictures from the photo project Simple Things.
For me, though, all of them comprised both fragility and tension of the incomparable; things that transpired in compositions created by me appeared to be rooted in unfamiliar realities.
I’ve seized this surrealism. I have been doing what I felt, saw, and imagined, sometimes only guided by the items of a given space, be it a kitchen, a garage, a balcony, etc. This artistic intersection and combination of photography and sculpture that consisted of personal items was fiercely attractive.
When the home space became too cramped, there was an urge to bring something from beyond the house: multicolor tiles, shattered glass, foam plastic… all sorts of construction debris that further emphasized the transience of time. Interestingly, the new images based on all this debris were not sullen – rather, they conveyed an immense vitality and nascence of something new from this infinite routine.
If I were to use just one phrase to describe the entire polyphony of Simple Things, all these new compositions that emerged from familiar objects, I would have chosen the following words: the ability of staying alive.
*This is a short selection of pictures from the photo project Simple Things.