1- Moving Between Media
Neighbours is developed through drawing, painting, animation, video, and archival research. Each medium serves a different purpose within the project. These media continuously intermingle.
Images in transition
This movement between media reflects the project itself: a study of how identities, memories, and social roles are constantly constructed, transformed, and renegotiated.
Drawing & painting slow down observation. They allow experiences, memories, and references to be transformed into images that can be revisited, questioned, and reinterpreted.
Animation & video extend these images through time by focusing not on action but on hesitation, repetition, and transformation, allowing psychological states to unfold gradually.
Methodology
Rotoscoping allows filmed performances to be translated into painted movement while preserving gesture, hesitation, and the traces of drawing.
Frames from ongoing animation development
Illustrations
Drawing and illustration form the foundation of the project. Many neighbours begin as sketches before developing into paintings or animations, carrying the same themes across different forms.
2- Visual Language:
The visual language of Neighbours is built through contrast: intimacy and violence, humour and discomfort, belonging and exclusion.
Distortion, gesture, and scale are used to create psychological tension rather than realism. Muted surfaces are interrupted by concentrated accents of colour, directing attention and emotional intensity.
Rather than illustrating events directly, the images focus on atmosphere, ambiguity, and emotional states, inviting multiple interpretations rather than fixed conclusions.
3- Living Archive:
Neighbours is an evolving archive.
New neighbours, rooms, stories, drawings, animations, and references can continuously enter the building. The project remains unfinished by design, allowing it to grow alongside new research and new observations.
The building provides a stable framework, while its contents remain in constant transformation.
