For years, I have been observing the landscape. The act of observation and engagement is pleasant to me; it puts me in a state of detachment and allows me to rest, not requiring me to step in and confront. However, slowly, over the years, the landscape began to reflect the inner self, increasingly taking over my being. What started as an external focus gradually led me inward.
The series “Why Share Something Intimate About Our Family” revolves around landscape and photography, time and family. At its core lies tension—tension between beauty and anxiety, between layers of past-present-future, layers of land that conceal a secret, something important that we just seem to have missed. Remnants of memory, darkness, and the desire to restore the order, to clean the dirt. A desire to make sense of a chaotic world.
The work resonates across different spheres: mother-daughter relationships, the dynamics between mother-daughter-father, an absent-present father, age, place in the world, understanding the world, and memory mechanisms caught between elegy, anxiety, growth, and desire.
The series includes a video piece that tells the tragic life story of my mother through a series of recorded interviews I conducted with her. It also features analog images from my late father’s slide collection and images I took in dialogue with my father’s works.
