OB25 (Other Rooms)

Other Rooms is a photographic project on the reconstruction of mental spaces. I imagine mental space as a reflective yet imaginative place located in one's mind, where distressing emotional experiences coexist with the present awareness of a different, if not necessarily more pleasant, state of mind. Using photographs as raw material, I build and digitally rearrange images in geometrical and sometimes irregular shapes to visualize the structuring of reorganized mental spaces. 

The displacement of images reflects how visual information is stored and merges over time. I use shape outlines as entrances and borders in imagined landscapes where opposites coexist and ambiguity is the norm. This project lies at the intersection of perceived reality and built spaces. Each shaped image is a container of emotions, concerns, perceptions, and fantasies. The work questions how mental spaces form and function, and how idiosyncratic perception influences and shapes how we make sense of the world.