From photographs of real, occupied spaces, I construct a fictional room and the image of its unseen inhabitant. The viewer connects the details, assigning habits, character, and biography to this stranger. The project explores how we judge others based on fragmented evidence and how much our conclusions reflect our own experiences and expectations.
I photograph fragments of real, inhabited spaces: objects, textiles, plants, furniture, and the traces of daily habits. During the selection and assembly process, the images lose their connection to their original context and become part of a single, fabricated room.Recurring details, textures, and domestic motifs create a sense of a unified space and the presence of its unseen inhabitant. When viewing the photographs, the audience establishes connections between the objects, attributing habits, character, and a possible biography to the stranger.Through the creation of this fictional room, I explore how we form perceptions of unknown people based on limited evidence. To what extent are our conclusions determined by what we see, and to what extent are they shaped by our own experiences, expectations, and ingrained assumptions about others? The authenticity of individual fragments does not guarantee the veracity of the story that emerges from them: sometimes what seems like knowledge about another person is merely a reflection of our own perspective.
