Lisa Mukhina - ‘Not found’
When I turned seventeen I left home.
I wanted to know what it was like to be an adult. I returned a year later because I figured out that there is no such thing as a ‘proper adult’. I realised that propriety was a figment, which we all try unsuccessfully to materialise.
I realised that as individuals, we need other people, because we are all fundamentally lonely.
I realised that it was only my family that would always be there for me and help me. It is this realisation that inspires this series of works.
The themes that I tried to convey in this photoset are fear, youth, vulnerability and uncertainty, which grow into sincerity, perseverance, and strength.
Overall, my work is about forgiveness and love. The same love that I feel for my family, and the same forgiveness that I ask of my family, for not being sincere with them before.