51°35'07.4"
- The sacred is not deterred by closed doors -
51°35'07.4" focuses on the forgotten corners of the urban environment, places where human intention has dissolved and other forces have taken over. Walls crumble, paint loosens, metal rusts, and vegetation quietly pushes through every opening. These spaces were once shaped, maintained and controlled, yet now they exist in a state of withdrawal. What remains is a slow, patient transformation in which nature reclaims what was left behind.
In this project, the sacred is not tied to churches, icons or rituals. It appears instead in the persistence of growth, in the quiet resilience of weeds, in the way light touches a neglected surface. Closed doors do not prevent this presence. Even in the most overlooked places, something continues to move, to breathe, to unfold. The photographs reveal how beauty and meaning can arise precisely where human attention has faded.
51°35'07.4" invites the viewer to look at these transitions without judgment, to recognize how decay and renewal coexist, and to sense how the sacred remains present even when its traditional forms have disappeared.
During the exhibuition of 51°35'07.4" the work presented a series of photographs made in neglected urban spaces. Here, human structures are slowly giving way to weather, time and vegetation. The work shows how these places, though abandoned, still carry a quiet presence. The sacred is not deterred by closed doors. It continues in the small gestures of growth, in the textures of decay, and in the subtle interplay between what remains and what is becoming.
