IBSA Foundation Covid19
LuganoPhotoDays
Irmina Walczak
Oasis: In our quarantine yard
Oasis: In our quarantine yard is a series created during 95 days of the confinement of our family in a Spanish countryside, the place we were surprised by the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Oasis: In our quarantine yard is a series created during 95 days of the confinement of our family in a Spanish countryside, the place we were surprised by the lockdown.
It explores the experience of social distancing in a rural area where space is widened but, at the same time, human presence is scarce. Especially for children, who make the bars, the gate their window to the world. The contact with nature is intensified and a silence, leisure are filled by observing natural events. Simultaneously, the break with reality and its common rhythm makes the imagination flourish. With the sunset, the restlessness and fear of death awaken. We all learn how to tame these monsters of the night and wake up light enough to appreciate the growth of our temporary vegetable garden.
Through this work we aim to make visible an experience of going through the Covid-19 quarantine far from a large city, in the rural area, in which contact with nature brings caress, but tension is enhanced by human absence, both visual and audible.