Absence series focuses on landscapes, surfaces, architecture and isolated spaces. The photographs are partially detached from their original realities and contexts, forming a new narrative. At the center of this narrative is the concept of absence, pointing to what is not present in the images. The series situated between a past that is hard to remember and an obscured vision of the future that cannot be fully predicted. Eu-topia, which refers to a good place, and u-topia, which refers to a place that does not exist, merge within the present. In this way, the obscurity of what is coming and the ghosts of what has been forgotten open up space for the idea of an infinite and expanding present—a present where memory is weak, and dreaming about the future is pointless.
As Ernst Bloch stated "Utopian consciousness wants to look far into the distance, but ultimately only in order to penetrate the darkness so near it of the just lived moment, in which everything that is both drives and is hidden from itself. In other words: we need the most powerful telescope, that of polished utopian consciousness, in order to penetrate precisely the nearest nearness. Namely, the most immediate immediacy, in which the core of self-location and being-here still lies, in which at the same time the whole knot of the world-secret is to be found".
The main question of the series is whether the telescope could be replaced by a camera focused on capturing the nearest nearness rather than the far into distance.
