Veiled Longing

Veiled Longing observes the psychological residue of everyday life between 2020 and 2023, using the street to examine how disruption reshaped presence, order, and belonging.

From 2020 to 2023, time stretched into an extended and unusual phase. Everyday order was disrupted, and the boundaries between people, space, and social relations gradually became blurred. A persistent sense of unease and fatigue lay beneath daily life. The street became the most direct field of observation.

What it responds to is a sustained state of looking—open, unstable, and unresolved. I move through the streets, using the camera to collect fleeting emotions and structural details. Rather than arriving at fixed conclusions, they take the street as a point of incision, tearing open the psychological surface of this era and allowing us to see again those who walk silently between systems and lived realities—people who seem never to have truly “returned” to place.

What we are adapting to remains uncertain: a restored reality, or a modified illusion of one? And after a systemic reconfiguration, how much of what we call the “everyday” is still voluntary?