‘Three Walls and a Window’ is a container of ideas on the spaces we inhabit, and the objects that we inhabit them with. The concept of the project revolves around two axes. On one hand, it investigates ideas on the mundane and the every day, the way we arrange our spaces and our inherent need to produce meaning out of such actions. On the other hand, it examines how through our daily and repetitive interaction with the objects that inhabit a space, is possible for their meaning to change or cease to exist.

The images were made in my room during the second wave of the COVID-19 confinement in Antwerp. My first impression of this almost all-white space was that it could function as a DIY studio. With this in mind, I worked using as props different objects that were coming to inhabit it. Their playful arrangement in the space is counterbalanced with a sinister feeling, that lies underneath.

The repetitive view in each photograph can easily be thought of as a kind of typology, a catalogue of interior arrangements. But if it is a catalogue, then it is an imperfect one. The slightly tilted view of the camera, varying from one photograph to the other as well as the lens facing the light coming from the window add an extra layer of imperfectness in the images.

Furthermore, the room acquires the character of a space that is constantly changing. One that never reaches its final destination and form. On the contrary, it becomes a space that can host different and contradictory scenarios of dwelling. When looking at each image individually, we are invited to think of the events that led to such arrangements. At the same time, when seen as a whole, the images of the room, in its imperfectness and incompleteness, become a testimony of the very basic characteristics that lie on the foundation of human nature.