Afterimages

By projecting photographs that evoke a comforting elsewhere onto the surfaces of my current living space and daily routine, I create transient images that reveal the allure of surrendering to nostalgia.

This body of work examines the psychological tendency to romanticize what has already receded—the past, the elsewhere, the unattainable—which is also what photography inherently captures when viewed from the present. The impulse toward idealization often emerges from an underlying unease with the present, a restlessness shaped by banality or the muted textures of everyday life. By projecting photographs that evoke a comforting elsewhere onto the surfaces of my current living space and daily routine, I create transient images that reveal the allure of surrendering to nostalgia.

As the projections drift across walls, floors, and bedsheets, merging with the textures of the current, they form fleeting fusions where memory momentarily overtakes the present. This act of layering not only visualizes desire but also exposes how memory itself is shaped and confined by the photographic image. When lived experiences are simplified and aestheticized into flattened imprints, they become objects of seduction, inviting us to idealize what can no longer be touched.