NOSTALGIA
Nostalgia is a sequence of original and found images composed into a fictional narrative.
The series traces a story of dislocation and longing: the search for belonging in unfamiliar places and in the presence of another person. Photographs taken across different times and locations are arranged to construct a memory that never existed as such: an idealised past, a home, a companionship that promises to resolve the condition of not belonging.
An extract from a poem by Somali-British poet and essayist Momtaza Mehri accompanies the work.
Nostalgia, 2019
28 photographs
inkjet print on paper
variable dimensions