Seeing through yesterday is a series of photographs and a video which illustrate how immigrants/refugees experience their new lives in the new country. I use transparent/reflective elements such as glass, mirrors and other surfaces with these two properties, to represent how memories, traumas and societal barriers shape the new life perception.
My aim is to implement multiple realities within the two dimensions of the frame, by working with reflections which can add multiple elements to the scene in an unpredictable context like making a collage.
In many of these photographs and scenes you are looking at the city — its movement, its people, but also seeing overlays of other lives and moments of stillness. This duality mirrors the emotional and psychological state of many immigrants/refugees, physically present in a new place, but often caught between past and present, between visibility and invisibility.
