Mara Braun
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic I made the choice to move to an area where I was quite isolated from my usual support/social network. It was a time of intense alienation and isolation. For weeks on end, the only people I saw were strangers to me. I felt trapped in a solitary cage, surrounded by a concrete jungle inhabited by unknown souls. My nostalgia for moments of connection found me imagining the lives that might be lived within the houses I passed on my daily walks, wondering what their lives looked like during these strange times. While walking at night I stumbled upon the phenomenon of seeing into people’s front rooms lit up from inside, and so emerged a snapshot of an aspect of a stranger's life that is entirely open to the onlookers interpretation.
I also found myself re-examining the interior space of my home and my relationship to it. I sought to capture the atmosphere created by intimate and sensory moments. My photographs are designed to provoke an intimate liminal space within the viewer's mind, somewhere they can imagine but perhaps not quite place, thus bringing forth intimate spaces in which they may have experienced the same play of light, or an emotional resonance, during still moments when not much else is happening.
Stranger Worlds, 2020
Photograph of an iridescent happening
Day, 2020
Photography series of iridescent happenings
Dusk, 2020
Photography series of iridescent happenings
Night, 2020
Photography series of iridescent happenings
Tactile Sensations, 2020
Digital collage
Tactile Sensations, 2020
Digital collage
The Solace of a Wandering Reverie, 2020
Video book
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The Intimacy of the Interior, 2020
Video work
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