spatial documentaries and a projection
For my research practice I used digital photography in order to document the plurality of contents that define void, also the importance of the seemingly insignificant. Photographs provided the visual reflection to the theory and facilitated me to further understand its variable contexts and investigate new dimensions of void. For my documentation I used FinePix E900 digital camera both for the photographs and the videos. My goal was not an outcome of high quality, rather, I wanted a flexible portable medium to ‘freeze’ as many moments of void as possible.

I took more than 1000 photographs which then I spread on the floor (the void unfolded in frond of me) and tried to find connections and/ or categorise them. It was then that I realised that many of them were close ups (the physicality of the void). I am willing to present the photo-books which can be perceived both as documentation, as a narrative and as a contextual base of my research. The outcome of the categorisation I mentioned before.

Moreover, I am aiming to visualise my research and context with projections. The photographs expose the traces my reading left behind: tiny moments in the city, a detail, a note in the margin, a line in my sketchbook, absence of material, formation of texture, and a narrative hidden in the left over. These traces not only add new interpretations to the void, they also constitute an alternative catalogue of the plethora of its topologies and its characteristics.

In that context, the projection indicates that what is missing is at the same time the linking element. The viewer is challenged to make his/her own translations, while void becomes simultaneously a threshold and a linkage. The construction of the space on which I project, is important as it materialises the space so as to accommodate the void.

Through both the books and the projection I want to present not only the qualities of void but also qualities of the process of ‘making’; the autonomous process of creation. Finding out is part of the process. The space that emerges is the latent image.