15×20 cm
Artist book, 2023
“Hometown” is a book-walk through the city where I was born. An attempt to hear and understand the stories told by the landscape around.
Sometimes I look at the photos taken by my grandfather. Here’s a picture of my grandmother holding my newborn mom, and here’s a photo of my mom holding me. Another cycle of the carousel will pass, and maybe I’ll have a similar picture with my own child.
My grandfather often photographed trees and nature. I tried to find and recapture the landscapes depicted in his photographs. It was interesting to see how they had changed over these five decades. He couldn’t recall where he had taken them, so I had to search for places that looked as similar as possible.
My great-grandparents met because they were sent to work to the same factory. Now it’s a ruin in the middle of the city. It’s interesting that my grandfather doesn’t have any photos of this factory, and the photos shown here are taken from the city archive. So how can we talk about ruins? Is it an absence and emptiness, or the presence of something unspoken, something that was or will be?
No home, no town
A diary in dialogue with my artist book Hometown. 2024
