One room, five states. What initially suggests human presence disappears frame by frame. First the chairs, then the computers. What remains is an empty room whose appearance hardly changes, yet which increasingly loses its meaning.
The objects refer to people without showing them. They are both evidence of their presence and their stand-ins. As they disappear, the very notion of a place—one that has gained meaning through use, work, and habitation—also dissolves.
The series approaches disappearance as a fundamental human experience. Everything that makes presence visible is transient. Things lose their function, traces fade, and familiar connections dissolve. What remains is a clean space that no longer reveals who used it, yet still carries within it the memory of what is absent.
The empty space thus becomes an image of an absence that points beyond the specific location. It raises the question of what remains when the traces of human presence disappear.
Changes (2009)