Uncertain Tranquillity (work in progress 2023 - )
This body of work began with an internal dilemma regarding the nature of borders today: are they merely physical locations, or can they also be revealed as social and emotional phenomena? Moving beyond the language of documentary photography, I decided to approach border territories from a more conceptual standpoint, carrying out various interventions such as moving objects, using smoke flares, and photographing installations at the sites where I was staying.
The project seeks to explore the European Union's eastern border territories through photography, with a specific focus on architecture and landscape, where various visual signs indicate instability and unrest. This approach aims to visually deconstruct the border space as a palimpsest – a multilayered text where traces of different eras and cultures overlap and interact. The project employs techniques derived from both documentary and conceptual photography. Its main goal is to examine representations of social structures in the landscape and cultural hybrid states within the environment. Consequently, the project is closely connected to insights from border and visual anthropology, art as research, and the language of the photographic medium.
