In these countries, life unfolds slowly, rooted in daily rituals and deep traditions, while urbanization advances and mass tourism and Westernization gradually permeate habits and environments. Within communities that seem to oscillate between pride and resignation, questions emerge about what it truly means to belong, and how inner conflicts silently take shape.
This reflection materializes through a visual language that combines photography and collage, enriched by the use of pins, elements that can connect, separate, pierce, or mend. They carry a triple meaning: evoking the fragility and pain of distance, symbolizing both spontaneous and imposed connections, and representing time as it accumulates and transforms. Each pin becomes a foreign body that pierces the image, marking its vulnerability.
Faraway so Close unfolds as a continuous movement between margin and center. Each image is a threshold, each collage a map, and each pin a path through the disorder of human relationships.
