The project explores the interplay between the private and the public within urban space. A person sitting on a standard chair transfers an ordinary private action into a public environment, where it acquires a new meaning.
Through a series of photographs, I explore how the urban context influences the perception of the individual in the frame: why in some places the ability to pause, slow down, and engage in one’s own activities feels natural, while in others it registers as a violation of unwritten social codes. Public space constantly encroaches upon personal space—through the movement of passersby, their gazes, reactions, and chance encounters. Thus, a collision emerges between two realms—the private space an individual constructs around themselves, and the public space that continues to exist by its own set of rules.
