If/When/How far is close
2016 -2017
If / When / How Far Is Close grew out of my experience of a long-distance relationship and of the search of the ways intimacy shifts when physical presence is replaced by absence.
In the first part of the project, I invited strangers into my bedroom - a space usually reserved for those closest to me. Without introductions or conversation, they sat on my bed while the camera recorded this unfamiliar closeness. These encounters question how intimacy can be constructed, even in silence and between people who do not know one another.
The second part consists of recordings from video-call sessions with my then partner, during which we sleep while remaining connected online. For many long-distance couples, leaving a call open for hours or even days becomes a way to collapse distance - a quiet form of togetherness that is felt rather than articulated.
In the first part of the project, I invited strangers into my bedroom - a space usually reserved for those closest to me. Without introductions or conversation, they sat on my bed while the camera recorded this unfamiliar closeness. These encounters question how intimacy can be constructed, even in silence and between people who do not know one another.
The second part consists of recordings from video-call sessions with my then partner, during which we sleep while remaining connected online. For many long-distance couples, leaving a call open for hours or even days becomes a way to collapse distance - a quiet form of togetherness that is felt rather than articulated.
