SPACE 3: DARREN VUKASINOVIC

Perceived Isolation

Exhibition dates. 12 April - 23 April 2023
Opening Reception : Thursday 13 April 2023, 6:00 - 8.30pm

Lost in the crowd. A catchphrase reflecting sentiments many experience in modern life. Perceived isolation is a phenomenon that stems from crowding and overcrowding in cities where a craving for personal space comes into collision with the human need for connection and social cohesion.

City structures and the flow of its millions of inhabitants creates outward perceptions that loneliness and isolation is impossible and yet amidst is a deeply detached experience shared by many – the sense of being lost, of being disconnected, of loneliness. Through photography and prose I explore sentiments observed outwardly and reflected within myself. Roaming Melbourne streets in the evenings where the city comes alive and people experience both connection and isolation, I seek a common narrative capturing the interplay between structure and subject – urban jungle and inhabitants – staring through the viewfinder at a subsection of the vast, complicated and always in flux dynamics of modern life.

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