Basia Sokołowska, Elsewhere

„Periphery is an important part of my experience. It is where my seeing and my photography comes from. Periphery allows greater independence and originality, because structures are less rigorous on the outskirts, not as precisely defined as in the centre” – says the artist about her new series of photographs. The title “Elsewhere” refers to  periphery – places we do not visit deliberately, but come across by chance, on the way, without paying attention.  However, our emotional map of the city is made up of such ordinary, everyday, unremarkable places located away from the centre, yet urban.
„Elsewhere” is a series of over sixty monochrome photographs made in 2000-2005 in Poland, Australia and Malaysia. The artist – known mostly for her studio works – shows her view of three cities to which she is emotionally tied: Warsaw, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. “It is about marginal and peripheral places in geographical, cultural as well as emotional sense. Fragments of urban areas located away  from the city centre in three distant countries are shown as if present in the field of peripheral vision: less important, indefinite, existing on the edge of our perception. […] This project is about the dynamics of geography in our heads and hearts”.