Intimate Strangers By Hemya Moran
- Words
- Caroline Kurze
In Hemya Moran’s work ‘Intimate Strangers’ she suggests randomly chosen strangers to have an intimate acquaintance. She takes photographs with them in their private space; their living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, back yards, and any place that’s scorched with their personal memory. The encounter is singular and short, and harbors a sensation of its infinite possibilities, a unique and magical moment overpowering the everyday stale and automated existence.
+ Read MoreHemya Moran states: “In every encounter I stage an intimate moment, an artificial acquaintance. I’m looking for affection in estranged environments, occupying a contradicting position both distant and involved, repulsed and attracted, feeling a sense of belonging and of loneliness all at once, affection experiencing both empathy and a struggle of domination.
During the course of my work I was able to produce these intimate moments in various environments, situations and with different individuals, to create privacy everywhere and closeness with anyone. In a relative short period of time I’ve managed to create an industry of intimacy.”
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All images © Hemya Moran
