The only thing we have is others.
And the houses are trembling
And the car is drifting on a wet road
And we hold our hands
We drink ouiski, waiting for a big fire to burn the parliament, because we want something to happen that has an unpredictable cause.
And anything is possible
and nothing is done
And the loop is coming
and going
And
Today, I dreamed of a dreamless dream.
It is a notion I have that reality has separated, and life has started to imitate glitches of it. From Black Rock Alladdin to Gemini 3.0, the virtual landscape has overtaken the physical world, leaving behind an empty coordinate where anything is possible and nothing is happening. Alienation and deconstruction have become a commonality—a feeling that meaning has abandoned the building we used to live in.
In “Drowning in Flames,” I try to locate those glitches, recording a landscape that has departed from us.
Odysseas Tsompanoglou
Odysseas Tsompanoglou (born 1998, Greece) is a photographer based in the Netherlands whose work explores loss, melancholy and collective healing. His practice investigates notions of truth, deterritorialization, hyperreality and postmodernity, often through speculative and situationist strategies that blur the line between document and fiction. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, he approaches photography as a collaborative process that questions authorship and invites the publics to co‑produce meaning and dialogue around the visual medium. Informed by his experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, he applies strict technical constraints to his practice, using photography as a therapeutic tool to metabolize the instability of time and perception. By recording the ‘glitches’ of a reality that feels increasingly separated from physical experience, his work ultimately seeks to construct a sense of home within the empty coordinates of the virtual age.
