OIKOS

OIKOS is a photographic exploration of how we relate to our surroundings. Through this work, I question our experience of space and spatiality; physically, as well as mentally and emotionally. Space is never entirely neutral. It can contain or protect, isolate or open up. A windowless room might feel like a safe cocoon, or just as easily like a suffocating prison. A doorway can offer a view, or point toward something out of reach.

My images are suggestions of spaces where presence and absence coincide. Emptiness is never truly empty; it carries meaning. Sometimes a space evokes stillness and calm, at other times tension or unease.

Light plays a central role — light as a carrier of time, fleeting and changeable. It draws the outlines of walls, floors, and passageways. It reveals, but also obscures. This leaves room for interpretation: what do you see, what do you feel, what is missing?

The title OIKOS comes from Ancient Greek and refers to house, family, home. A place of belonging, but also of boundaries. I experienced my sheltered childhood as both protective and oppressive. This series is a visual exploration of how inner and outer worlds influence each other, and how that interaction shapes our experience of space.