Life in the Time of Coronavirus
Fifty-two days without working and going out. Doctors on the front lines, empty cities, and our lives on pause - this describes a historic moment, a time when for many people, the walls of their homes seemed to close in. Time stopped and became the narrator of our collective experience.
Sleep left us for a while, and suddenly, night transformed into our new day. The boundaries between waking and dreaming, between public and private, between isolation and connection, became fluid in ways we had never experienced before.
"Quarantine Nights" is a narrative where one can grasp sensations and glimpses of nocturnal coexistence through material objects, thoughts, and dreamlike considerations. It explores the intimate geography of confinement, where the familiar becomes strange and the domestic space transforms into the entire world.
This project documents not just the physical reality of lockdown, but the emotional and psychological landscape of a society learning to exist in suspended animation, finding new rhythms in the disrupted flow of normal life.
The pandemic forced us into an unprecedented intimacy with our domestic spaces. What had been merely functional - a kitchen table, a bedroom window, the corridor between rooms - suddenly became the stage for all of human experience: work, rest, fear, hope, isolation, and connection.
"Quarantine Nights" emerged from my own experience of insomnia during lockdown, when the conventional boundaries of day and night dissolved. In those suspended hours, I found myself documenting not just the physical traces of our altered existence, but the emotional archaeology of a society learning to live differently.
These images speak to the universal experience of confinement while honoring the particular poetry of objects and spaces made strange by circumstance. They are fragments of a collective dream from which we are still awakening.