Sleepy Paradise
Sleepy Paradise explores the relationship between a territory and the people who inhabit it. In Cuba, I became interested in the way people live, adapt and continually reinvent their everyday lives within an environment shaped by constraints. Through portraits, gestures, colours, facades and the spaces in which people live and move, I sought to observe how everyday life continues to unfold within this particular environment. Through these encounters, the territory reveals itself as both a space of constraint and a space of possibility. The people I photographed do not simply inhabit this environment; they transform it through the ways they occupy, organise and imagine their everyday lives. The soft, almost unreal colours of the images reflect this suspended state, where constraint and vitality coexist. Cuba appears somewhere between reality and dream, a place where the ordinary becomes poetic and where dreaming becomes perhaps another way of inhabiting the world.
