The Swimmers explores connections between space, identity and how we think of home—for many, a persistent awareness of foreignness and a search for belonging that cannot be tied to one fixed geographical or ideological place. Displacement is one of the defining traits of our generation, for movement across continents, be it physical or virtual, now permeates the way that we interact with the world. The Swimmers acts as a whimsical documentation of one who could exist in an ever-more complex space between ‘here’ and ‘there’ — a portrait of an imaginary collective psyche caught up in the instability of our time.
Long before embarking on this series, I experienced an uncontrollable desire to stand at the shoreline and look outwards on the dissolving of limits that separate me from those I love. This literal struggle—with the seeming impossibility of departures, arrivals or re-unions—became the driving force for these images. If the ocean is both the barrier and the passage, the swimmers are those caught in that liminal space, where borders are constantly erased and redrawn.
