The Unmovable Mover

The factory stood there for decades, until the fire. People say it was arson. It burned everything to the ground. Much later, a box turned up in an antique shop. A box of photographs, pulled from the fire. Only none of this is true, although it could be.

The Unmovable Mover is a speculative reconstruction of a past that never was—a small industrial complex from the 1960s shrouded in mystery. Drawing from an undisclosed collection of black-and-white photographs gathered over the years by the artist, the project reimagines a factory that might have existed, perhaps lost to a catastrophic fire, perhaps never real at all.

By interweaving these found images with new, carefully staged photographs taken between 2022 and 2025, a visual narrative that blurs the line between truth and fiction is created. Central to the story are the figures captured in the images, whose presence lends a haunting depth to the narrative. Bold, printed texts, in the form of imagined interviews and reflective fragments, accompany the images and question the very nature of documentation, truth, and memory.