Leaving One Place for the Other – Rooms I Slept in, 2026
artist book,19,5x14cm, 112 pages, riso print, hand bound, edition of 35+AP
How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit? What happens when home shifts from everyday to one day, from accumulation to loss? How is memory bound to place, and what persists when a place itself withdraws?
‘Home’ emerges through the accumulation of time, condensing lived experience into a sense of belonging and continuity. In domestic interiors, everyday routines leave traces that accumulate into a personal archive, while memories become inseparably attached to the places we inhabit. When ‘home’ ceases to be a site of return and instead becomes a transient condition, continuity disperses. Memory no longer accumulates in one place but fragments across spaces that disappear from everyday life. Each departure marks a rupture, as a place passes irreversibly into the past.
The attempt to archive places through photography seeks to sustain coherence by accumulation, assembling fragments into provisional continuity while simultaneously exposing its impossibility. Published as a first version of an ongoing project, this book assembles fragmentary collections of personal notes, theoretical quotations, and photographs of places I slept in.