Photography in Days of Pandemic
Canan Erbil, 1992 Safe Zone, 2020
50 x 75 cm
Diptych, archival pigment print

The more it is repeated, the phrase “stay home” has started to lose its primary meaning in my head, and despite knowing why it is said in the first place, it has begun to find new contexts for itself. Where does inside and outside start and end? Who or what determines its boundaries? This state of staying inside that creates its own enclosed basin, has crafted a claustrophobic space that keeps on expanding by folding inward and stretching the present tense by carrying what Bergson has identified as “homogeneous time”, time that can be measured in space, far away from being side by side. With this series, I aim to trace those spaces that create their own refugees and to achieve a real sense of time with my intuition.