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The 'Uncanny Places' project is settled upon the expressive ambiguity of certain images, which are both familiar and foreign at the same time. In my view, these images evoke fragments of the contemporary world. A world of strangeness and similarity, hallucinatory, made of blurred and everchanging boundaries. My pictures aim to get away from that regulated world, without leaving it, but inspecting it.

The project deals with binaries such as the logic versus the magical, the rational and the irrational. Poetic experiments are created through an intuitive passage through apparently common places, with no compass; this deliberate aimlessness paves the way for moments of serendipity. 

Shot on various locations in Europe, the United States, China and Russia, Uncanny Places meets with different trajectories combining several frameworks to include feelings of awe and fear, provoking memory and illusion, and giving off a sense of myth and fantasy- all of which I try to recreate visually.

A double-exposure is intentionally used, in a very short time-span, in the same image, for the same occurrence. This is to create a notion of continuity between “there” and “here”, where two points in time overlap in the same place. The presence of the two physical and chronological layers in the same image contradicts the ordinary flow of perception. These images were  taken in medium format with the use of colour reversal film, without resorting to digital manipulation, the analogical adding to the mystery of these images.