Neighbors is a series of short videos filmed from the window of my apartment. I record people in the building opposite during small, often glimpsed moments of everyday routine — short, repetitive actions that are similar from one person to another.

In editing, I move these documentary fragments into environments foreign to them — outer space, video game worlds, wilderness, artificial landscapes. The window, the facade, and the figures of the neighbors end up in spaces where the rhythm of everyday life starts to slip, and the usual order doesn’t quite hold.

The project comes from a feeling of not really belonging to the place I live in. After four years of my immigration, the city still doesn’t feel like mine. Its streets, people, architecture often feel more like a backdrop than something I can enter and be part of. I find myself staying in the position of an observer more and more, keeping distance not as a decision, but as the only way I’ve found to exist here.

Through watching, I try to build some kind of connection. By placing strangers into absurd environments, I seem to take away stable ground from them in my imagination. The sense of certainty in this continuous, well-ordered life starts to fade, and that somehow makes the distance between us a bit smaller.

In doing this, I disrupt an existing order within a speculative space without changing anything in the material world. And in that gap, I try to find a way of being present myself.

Video art  

2025 - present