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Please take a seat

This series of urbex images embraces abandoned places, embedded with an intrinsic ambiguity between past and present, oblivion and collective memory. These spaces, silent remnants, are visited like fragile sanctuaries where the act of wandering intertwines with intuition, and emotion with contemplation. Throughout my explorations, I noticed the recurring presence of a singular object: the chair. This universal object, both functional and symbolic, embodies notions of rest, rootedness, but also power. The chair reflects both the individual and the collective. By its very nature, it is empty, evoking absence and pointing to the departed occupant, the echo of a departure. It leaves us only to imagine the narrative it holds, bearing witness to a vanished presence or an unfinished story—a presence erased or yet to come. These seats embody duality: they simultaneously invite and suggest abandonment. This reflection resonates with my own relationship to otherness and my need for solitude, which I have redefined following my diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The chair thus becomes a mirror of waiting, a celebration of distance and silence. More than a mere inanimate object, it transforms into a theater of paradox where reality and fiction intersect, revealing the fragility of the psyche. Please Take a Seat invites viewers to sit before the invisible, to listen to the stories that emptiness holds, and to feel the echo of the ephemeral and the unfinished.

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