Loneliness, 2023

Monotonous existence by inertia and gray everyday life. The viewer does not see the heroine in other rooms or outside the apartment. We can guess about her movements only by her reflection in the mirror and the changing light sources.

And then there is the lonely chair standing in the back of the room, always in plain sight. The chair is a faithful silent listener, it is also a way out of loneliness when you feel so sick you want to hang yourself.

The color of the frame, minimalism in details and a constant point of shooting (it does not change, thus strengthening the feeling of confined space and life) — all this is my attempt to convey the deeper emotional content of the series through the visual perception of the photo. Loneliness creates the conditions for us to listen to ourselves more.

Ultimately, one chooses one’s own life path and its direction. And at the heart of it all will always be LOVE — LOVE for oneself. The chair falls, makes you wince and wake up, the existing reality breaks. The fall of the chair here as an allegory for the appearance of changes in the heroine’s life. After all, loneliness is not a sentence, but just your choice, which you are able to always change.

Inspired by the films “On Infinity” (directed by Roy Anderson) and “The Human Voice” (directed by Pedro Almodóvar), David Hockney’s “The Big Splash”.