Tania Bohuslavska

Spring fracture, 2020
This series records the beginning of quarantine in the spring and the easing of quarantine restrictions in the summer.

At the same time, there was anxiety from an invisible but deadly threat. With the quarantine lockdown starting, I could not travel to the city for about a month as the subway was closed.

At home, I tried to focus on ordinary things and took pictures only when I wanted to capture the beauty of everyday life.

In general, for me, it was a ‘technical’ break for inner recovery, enduring disparate (various) emotions. I started taking medication because my condition deteriorated and was very uncertain after the breakup. This quarantine series includes photos taken on a mobile phone because ease was essential to me at the time. I photographed the wet cleaning process, the drops that remain on the hand after thorough hand washing, the home still lifes, and the impressions of the first trips to the city after the metropolitan’s opening.

I inverted some photos to convey my thoughts about the invisible to the naked eye threat and feelings of anxiety, sadness, and loss. From the Latin ‘invertere’ means turn upside down, upset, change, transfer.

To reflect the simultaneous experience of this inverted order — the pandemic, loss, isolation, but at the same time, feeling of hope, I combined inverted and ordinary images in the series to show these layers of reality as they were perceived.