Eyes that close at the sight of street protests. Hands that scroll through phone screens, ignoring reports of more disasters. Mouths that speak the words of daily conversations but remain silent in the face of global injustices. These are just a few of the millions of gestures of passivity we commit every day, staying hidden from the challenges of life.
Carefully staged self-portraits attempt to penetrate the shadows in which we hide. They seek to answer the question of why we remain passive when the situation demands action.
The world is drowning in armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, environmental disasters, and political divisions. Yet, we are stuck in our bubbles, tending to our own gardens, indulging in daily chores and hobbies, and pretending that all this does not concern us. We strike a pose, like mannequins in a store window. We stand impassively in our lives, having stripped ourselves of compassion and empathy.
In the aesthetics used, the flash of the lamp breaks through the shadows in which the figure is hidden, but is there anything there but emptiness?
