Neighbours

A study of how "The Other" is produced within everyday life.

"Project Neighbours" is a fictional apartment building inhabited by archetypal figures: the victim, the executioner, the lover, the witness, the believer, the opportunist, etc.

"The Other lives next door"

Project Neighbours begins from a simple observation:

The other rarely arrives from elsewhere. More often, the Other lives next door. Each room contains a different neighbour and a different story.

By focusing on neighbours rather than distant figures, the work explores how fear, hate, exclusion, and belonging emerge within ordinary everyday life.

Difference → Separation → The Other → Fear / Hate → Victim & Perpetrator → New Separation

In this project, paintings, illustrations, filmed performances, animations, and text continuously transform into one another.

The moment before something breaks:
The artwork captures the moment of collapse — when something inside a person breaks: a belief, conviction, moral stance, or sense of self. These collapses can be silent, turning into screams, or screams dissolving into silence.

What is this project asking?

The project explores how ordinary people create "The Other".

How is "The Other" produced?
How does separation become ordinary?
When does a neighbour become an enemy?
How does "hate" reproduce itself??

How does someone become “the Other”?

The Other → appears through Neighbours → within a Building

The cycle is the subject.
The loop is the engine
The neighbours are the actors.
The building is the stage.

Neighbours is not my destination. It is my laboratory. A laboratory keeps producing discoveries.

Meet the Neighbours

Every Neighbour carries a story.

The neighbours are not portraits of historical figures but archetypes. They draw from historical events, collective memory, personal experience, and contemporary realities. Together they form a symbolic map of human behaviour and social life.

New neighbours can always enter the building. New rooms can be opened, and new stories can be added. The archive remains open.

The Bureaucrat

Inspired by administrators and officials who placed obedience above personal responsibility.

A neighbour whose loyalty to procedure gradually replaces personal responsibility. He embodies how ordinary people can become part of systems of violence while believing they are simply doing their job.