“Inner Worlds”
A visual dialogue diary created by Miriam de la Cruz (Mexico) and Phuong Hoang (Vietnam, living in Berlin, Germany) between the winter of 2020 and the spring of 2021.
Both artists show their private objects, arranged then captured in places close to their beds every day. Their photographs visualize the puzzles chit-chatting in minds and their mental health condition during social distancing days concerning the second wave of the corona-virus crisis in late 2020.
In this diary, they share images of precious things, individually, capturing them with the available means; they share thoughts of the items and the origin or the way each came to them. Treasured objects and intimate moments come to light.
Phuong Hoang uses an Instax Mini 90 to indicate closeness. A collage of polaroid pictures shares different dialogues among her beloved objects.
9,529 km away from Berlin, in Mexico City, Miriam de la Cruz tries to play with objects and secret corners in her room, taking photos with a digital camera, EOS Rebel T5, applying filters, frames, drawing, and writing on it.
Thinking about words, repeating them like a spell. Making questions, making the things real with those spells.
The items are authentic in the artists' minds, but their inner worlds can become alive in others' when they are shared.
