1997/ 2023. B/W analogue photography, 2 parts, each 53 x 80 cm.
Faraway Nearby springs from an analog black-and-white series from 1997, which at the time remained in the experimental stage.
The motif, a section of forest nature with a person lying in the landscape, changes depending on the focus of the image, from a calm forest motif to a charged narrative; One hides what the other shows. Upon reviewing the series, more than 20 years later, I found that the last two images on the film roll had been mistakenly discarded as failed exposures. In retrospect, these are the most interesting of the series. Where the terms far and near originally described dimensions in space, these are now, in the new creation of the work - also about dimensions in time.
(The title is borrowed from the author Rebecca Solnit)
Faraway Nearby, #1
Faraway Nearby, #2