Didn't Mean to Keep You Waiting

"Didn't Mean to Keep you Waiting" unfolds between Athens and Folegandros from 2020 and follows the traces of a suicide in the early 20th century. On 5 May 1901, the educator of Folegandros takes his own life in a central hotel room in Athens, after a month-long stay at the Municipal Hospital of Athens due to tuberculosis, unwilling to transmit the disease. The project ventures into a heterochronic visual approach to the ultimate form of communication with the world, one that takes place by delivering a message that inevitably remains unanswered, as its author has departed. Through a metaphorical narrative about an immersive act, I create a space of reflection around the moment when life becomes unpleasant and its prolongation renders it futile. How can we stand in the face of the absurd and create an experience of the world open to both its beauty and its brutality?