Curtain Border
This photograph captures the essence of migration, identity, and belonging. At its center is a delicate curtain embroidered with intricate patterns - symbolizing a threshold between the known and the unknown, much like the experience of those suspended between staying and leaving.
The curtain comes from the artist’s great-grandmother’s bedroom in a village along the Albanian-Greek border - the very village her mother left behind in the 1990s. Its folds and textures carry an intimate weight, evoking a space once full of presence and now marked by absence.
With this image, the artist wants to invite the viewer to pause, to reflect on their own connection to home, movement, and the unseen borders that shape their lives. It is a quiet yet powerful reminder that belonging is not always tied to geography but to the spaces we inhabit - both within and around us.
