The SAR-CoV-2 pandemic is responsible for more than 3 million deaths worldwide. Its effects are long-term; it is difficult to know exactly how long we will be dealing with them. No one fully knows or can predict this. It was hard to predict from the beginning what the post-pandemic landscape of the globe would be, whether we would recover quickly. The most important thing was the reflexes of positive behaviour. Help, solidarity, a desire to provide relief to those most affected and heartbroken. Many did not know how to behave, how to deal with this sudden situation. After a few months of slowing down, we longed for the times before the pandemic, it seemed to us a ‘lost good’. We missed the most important things: direct contact with loved ones or other people, a direct handshake or looking another person in the eye with love. For the things that cannot be bought, the things that testify to the quality of life. Lockdown, made us realise how we are a society in need of social connections.
An intermedia exhibition using fine analogue and digital photographic techniques, the ‘Renewal’ project presents reflections on the encounter of people from a wide spectrum of society with SAR-CoV-2. What has changed in their ‘Inner Landscape’, in their lives , in their perception of the world, what has ended? and what has begun? Using the medium of image and word, I reach into these intimate spaces of experience to release them.
Alexandra
For many
people Covid was
tremendous stress
and an annoyance,
Some people lost or stopped work
or business activities
Others, meanwhile, were horrified by the restrictions and the fact that for a time they couldn’t even go to the park,
to a party or visit their friends or buddies in person.
Those who recovered are happy and persevered that they got through a very difficult and unpleasant period.
With time, the situation began to improve they opened discos, parks…. people began to meet with each other as before to hug each other and feel the closeness of a
of a friend or a person close to the heart.
