Empty Rooms

Empty Rooms explores the tension between fantasy and reality in my life in London. Through restaging familiar streets, interiors, and intimate moments with friends, I use photography — another kind of screen — to examine personal insecurity and the way sc

Do screens inspire me, or do they alienate me? Before joining Central Saint Martins, I had idealized my future life in London, shaped by an England constructed through visual culture. The Skins-like life I had imagined never happened. Confronted with the gap between fantasy and lived experience, I turned to photography — another kind of screen — as a way to explore my inner world and the still-taboo subject of personal insecurity.

I restage fragments of my own life: familiar London streets, intimate interiors, and quintessentially English details, often alongside my friends. By suspending these moments, almost in a state of dissociation, I create an in-between space where the desire to escape reality through images gradually turns into a trap.

Screens don’t just reflect; they build. They overlay new worlds onto my own, blurring the boundary until the two collapse. My work interrogates the nature of the gaze — obsessive, voyeuristic, and constructed through screens. These reassuring yet hollow false realities invite us to fantasize about a better life, while leaving us unprepared for the solitude and uncertainty of the present.