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“In the Labyrinth of Endless Nights: The Resonance of Analogue Grain in the Troubled Mind”
This collection is not a mere record, but a raw and committed exploration into the hidden strata of long nights and the distressed inner world. The analogue photography, with its grain and occasional lack of sharp focus, creates a suitable visual language for expressing the dusty sense of painful memories and the blurred boundaries between reality and nightmare.
The subjects in these images are entrapped in a cycle of chronic sleeplessness, destructive habits, and psychological turmoil that has gripped their body and soul. This series serves as an anatomy of depression, paranoia, and nocturnal sufferings; a space where individuality is challenged by a profound sense of void and precarious loves. From stagnation before inert screens to aimless searching in the half-empty refrigerators of the night, and from the physical manifestations of anxiety to symbols of faith grappling with spiritual turbulence, every element underscores the gravity of the lived experience.
These images offer a profound narrative of painful memories that have taken root in the recesses of the mind, and convictions that are being re-evaluated under the pressures of modern life. They are an invitation to gaze into what transpires in the darkness and into the invisible repercussions of a fast-paced existence; where the body itself is transformed into a medium for displaying deep existential distress. This collection is the soul’s silent scream in confrontation with the unbearable heaviness of being.
“2019-2020.”
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