CANCELLING TIME

Part of the solo exhibition Space of possibility presented in LITE-HAUS Gallery, July 2020. Cancelling time series represented a set of strange figures, faceless, anonymous characters that are almost disappearing. Their past, history, and genealogy are revealed through their clothing and the ambiance of the pictures, which helps viewers to unravel the stories each figure wants to tell. These strangers are the embodiment of the migrants who had to leave their homes forcibly to start over in a new place. During this process, they leave their pasts, their histories, and their identities behind, in order to begin the journey of internal and external transformation in unknown territory. This process of transformation, on a ritualistic level, is what I connect with liminality. Migrants become strangers in a new place, at the same time, in their home countries, they live through the conflict between their identities, and their belonging to a certain place is called into question. In many cases, this results in a life lived in permanent liminality, being in-between spaces of realities.