Floors
Digital c-type prints, each 21 x 29cm
"Floors" is a series of 6 photographs which physically document analogue spaces of a institutional building, from its top to the bottom.
Visually, these spaces look almost the same, as they follow the same rules of organization, but when my photographs of them are presented together in a vertical line, small differences emerge between them. When we look into a space, every object is defined, and usually painted accordingly: the floor, the baseboard, the wall, the door, the door frame, the pipe, we make distinctions between the physical phenomena by naming them.
We share a definition of these objects which is presented by how they are colored, but there remains an individual interpretation of these things, which the way they are painted reveals. Does the floor become part of something else because its paint overlaps the door frame? Is the edge the idea we have of it, or what is described by its painting?
Objects don't present reality and borders between them is purely interaction in our mind. I am interested in the moment when this separation is no longer possible to define.
It's something that's so mundane, but not obvious.
I'm also always fascinated by these small gestures, how much larger political and social agendas are actually being translated into the very small, minor gestures of our society in almost invisible places. It's also nice to see that there is some kind of association happening between the surface and the person, and the moments of deciding, and working ethics as well. There is some standard, we might say there are some rules, but those can only influence what a person chooses for himself; is very interesting to see what is coming out from this interaction. But also here what is coming out is this idea of personal responsibility as well, because there is also the space which is always overlooked, only the wall painter first and than afterwards the cleaning lady goes behind and has contact with it, so I think it's very interesting the space of investigation, the space of responsibility of the individual towards the environment.
