PHOTOS
Intimacy and Contingency, 2017-2019
This project adopts a sociological sampling methodology: the contents of bins situated across the private and the public sphere are photographed, reconfiguring viewing patterns of everyday residues. Each discarded object bears the thrower’s private experience, each photograph licences a voyeuristic glimpse into another’s life. In accumulation, residues sediment as collective memories. The bin’s interior holds intimate fragments marked by contingency: objects overlay, cover, and reconstruct one another, composing a shifting aggregation. Every fortuitous encounter with a distinctive item becomes an intimate connection with others, registering an idiosyncratic perception of irregularly formed content. A visual narrative of privacy — situated inside the bin — is disclosed and re-examined, staging a subjective encounter with the discarded. The context remains necessarily restricted, subordinated to incoherent individual instances embodied in everyday remnants: garbage as the ubiquitous, hidden intermediary of neglected intimacy between the individual and the collective.