If/When/How far is close
2016 -2017
The project was inspired by my long distance relationship and explores the intimacy between people.
Being constantly together with one person and then suddenly apart made me question the intimacy between people and the need for it.
How to feel close to someone who is geographically far away?
Is it possible to fake closeness with a complete stranger?
I invited strangers from the street to my bedroom for a photograph. I asked them to sit on my bed, place that is usually shared with the people closest to me and asked them not to introduce or share anything about themselves with me until the photograph was taken. Through such an experiment I worked through the questions of my own need for intimacy.
The second part of the work allows the viewer to one of the video-call sessions with my partner where we are both asleep.In a situation where two partners are geographically separated, a video-call is often constantly on – sometimes for days.
It is one way to connect the space and communicate with the person one is missing, even when verbal information is not shared.
Being constantly together with one person and then suddenly apart made me question the intimacy between people and the need for it.
How to feel close to someone who is geographically far away?
Is it possible to fake closeness with a complete stranger?
I invited strangers from the street to my bedroom for a photograph. I asked them to sit on my bed, place that is usually shared with the people closest to me and asked them not to introduce or share anything about themselves with me until the photograph was taken. Through such an experiment I worked through the questions of my own need for intimacy.
The second part of the work allows the viewer to one of the video-call sessions with my partner where we are both asleep.In a situation where two partners are geographically separated, a video-call is often constantly on – sometimes for days.
It is one way to connect the space and communicate with the person one is missing, even when verbal information is not shared.
