This project is about my father, with whom I never had a close relationship. After his death, I came to the realization that this relationship could no longer be built. Alongside this came a desire to enter into a dialogue with a person who had never been truly close to me, yet who was and remains part of me.

My father belonged to a generation of “absent fathers”: fathers who were present, but whose presence was only physical, without any emotional connection between father and daughter. His life exists for me as a collection of scattered facts, memories, myths, and feelings. It is impossible to assemble them into a complete image. This project becomes an attempt to come closer to him: to fill the gaps, to make his image more tangible, and to create a dialogue that never existed. At the same time, the project carries an understanding that true wholeness is impossible here.

The project brings together archival photographs, images of objects and places connected to particular memories and facts from his life, landscapes and interiors that metaphorically convey a sense of loss and absence, as well as my self-portraits.
I work with photographs as objects, attempting in this way to bring together fragments of unreliable memory and stories that may not always be true. Through them, a connection that did not exist before gradually begins to take shape.

Through the personal story of a relationship between father and daughter, the project turns to the experience of a generation of emotionally absent fathers. It considers absence as an inherited form of connection, as something that continues to shape memory, identity, and our understanding of closeness even after a human life has ended.