Nowhere Near

Nowhere Near

2018 - 2020

Here’s a story of a man. A man at the end of a long and exhausting journey to an unknown place, the land he imagined as a castle of clouds that vanished upon reaching it. What remains when the dream disappears? Where could one look for the answers? Would one turn his head to the stars to find the way home?

Almost everything we know about distant reaches of Universe has come to us via traditional cosmological messengers. Though some claim that there is another type of cosmological messengers - the fastest known stars that are trapped orbiting the supermassive black holes. When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their centres interact in a way that flings away orbiting stars out of the merged galaxy at super high speeds, some of them travelling fast enough to escape their galaxy entirely. If there was a mechanism of tracing them, we ought to be able to see unbound stars travelling across the Universe.

Here’s a story of a man.

A man that leaves his land and pursues his dream physically moving from one place to another, overcoming barriers, struggling to reach his own Eldorado. The dream a man is following is not always only a desire for future, sometimes it is a nightmare that appears when the dream doesn’t get fulfilled and remains a recurring vision of something that can never be reached.

The project was made in Italy in 2018 - 2020 and explores the phenomenon of the African migration.

The descriptions of single photographs contain modified dialogues between astronauts recorded during the space moon landing mission in 1969. They are intertwined with messages that migrants left on the newsfeed of a social media group where they tried to help each other through their space journey.