This body of work is an exploration of the spaces in between which we seem to be living in.
Generation Y in particular was subject to this series.
The generation has difficulties with making decisions. Once a decision is made, they are still contemplating the options they turned down, scared that they chose wrong. Ideally they want to keep their options available and stay in that in-between space where everything is seemingly accessible.
The problem is that the more choices are faced, the more challenging the decision becomes.
More options create more doubts.
Working, studying and living abroad turns one into a ‘transnational’; navigating between two worlds, the origin and the host country and belonging to both.
A different set of rules and behaviours apply when interacting with the host country’s natives, than when interacting with the fellows from the home country, as a way to respond to different expectations.
By leaving the country of origin the connection to it changes and it is difficult to establish a new relationship of the same quality and intensity with the host country. Even when returning to the origins, transnationals find themselves not fitting in anymore, which leaves them in between countries and in between homelands.
No social identity is fixed forever, it varies over time as people change through interaction.
Identity is something fluid rather than rigid. Instead of a single, unchanging self, we might consider a ‘liquid self’, the reality that humans are fluid, changing, and messy in ways both tragic and wonderful.
The Internet has played an interesting role in the tension between identity consistency and change.
Users build an online existence that does not necessarily represent who they are offline.
When texting, emailing and posting online, they get to present their self as they want to be perceived. They get to edit and to retouch, and use technology to define themselves.
They share their thoughts and feelings, even as they are having them; and are faking experiences so they have something to share, to satisfy their need of approval from others.
Virtual connectivity, rather than conversation is preferred, because conversation takes place in real time and can’t be controlled.
Generation Y seems eager to swiftly move in and out of all the places they find themselves in, virtual and physical.
Wanting to be together, but not wanting be together.
Virtual relationships allow to be economic with attention and emotions. Attention has become selective; filtering out what could be interesting and discarding the rest.
Simultaneously talking to one person online on a device while having a real life conversation with someone else.
Life is lived in between a real and a virtual identity, never fully present in one place.
In pursuance of producing photographs with an ‘in-between’ feel, the essential decisive moment of photography was attempted to be taken away.
Some of the pictures produced seem to be taken through glass or sheer material, placing an inexistent barrier between lens and subject, leaving the subject blurred and seemingly in the background.
In addition, physical in-between spaces were recorded on 35mm film and the space in between body and attire was captured with a pinhole camera.
This body of work has been showcased at a solo exhibition in London and Vienna as well as in a group exhibition at Victoria House London.
