“Where I Am” was conceived as an experiment at the intersection of photography, psychogeography, and creative writing, resulting in a series of digital artworks.
For many participants, the relationship with place became especially important. Many of them now live somewhere different from where they were born or grew up. So we explored the very feeling of place: how to make a new city your own, how to see familiar surroundings with fresh eyes, and how to connect them with the places that remain in memory.
The course included 11 weekly group sessions, as well as additional seminar-style and individual meetings. We explored our routes, created mental maps, walked, photographed, wrote, and gradually developed our own projects from these materials.
The final works took the form of interactive walks, games, and visual novels. They are presented in two formats: you can either watch a recorded walkthrough of each project or experience it yourself.
Photographs of an ordinary park are transformed into the setting for an adventure with its own map, characters, and random routes. A familiar place becomes a fantasy world that can unfold a little differently each time.
A project about memory returning through space. The park, the light, the paths, and small details become triggers for remembering one’s own places and people, while someone else’s walk gradually begins to intersect with the viewer’s personal memories.
A deeply personal work about anorexia nervosa, told through the image of a forest and a journey inward. The external route gradually turns into an inner labyrinth, where sensations, fears, and questions become part of the path.
An ironic and absurd story about chance, choice, and constant shifts in perspective. Pigeons, people, sounds, unexpected transformations, and cats’ lives come together in a world that follows its own unpredictable logic.
Veronika builds a personal archive from moments she wants to preserve: school, friends, student accommodation, summer, journeys, and family stories. Photographs become letters to herself, a way of holding on to things that change over time and gradually fade from memory.
After moving to Dresden, Oleg began finding places in the new city that reminded him of his native Kharkiv. Bridges, streets, trees, and meeting points form a personal map in which two cities exist at the same time, and memory becomes a way of gradually making a new place feel like his own.
Black-and-white photographs, urban spaces, a house, and childhood memories come together in a story that exists on the border between reality and imagination. Drawing on magical realism and the novel Pedro Páramo, Evelina creates a world in which the past continues to exist alongside the present, while the boundary between memory and reality slowly disappears.
