A Corner of Home Sara Perovic
A CORNER OF HOME
Sara Perovic
Published 8 July, 2020
In the days that have passed and the days that are to come, we'll all be spending more time indoors. A Corner of Home collects photographic studies and new works made by artists in their immediate environments; small snapshots of the impulse to create.
Edited by Trine Stephensen and Joanna Cresswell
1. Where are you living at the moment and how has that environment shaped you creatively? Can you tell us about a favourite detail of this place and why?
I'm currently living in my apartment in Berlin Kreuzberg, but I think that my creativity is actually more shaped through my past than the city I've been living in for the last 10 years. However, one of my favourite places in the city is the romantic view from the Museum Insel in the early morning, when there’s no people around. It’s magical because of the light and the classical view. It reminds me a bit of my hometown where there are a lot of roman ruins.
2. How have you looked at the materials of home differently in the past weeks? Are there parts of it that have revealed themselves to you in new ways?
Well, I found out that I can just sit on the couch and look around, and find pictures to take. The first month of quarantine in Berlin was sunny EVERY day, which is quite rare, so the light in my apartment was so inspiring. The parts that revealed themselves were small details, shaped differently by the light. I'm always convinced that what we photograph is shaped by what we see – by all the visual input we receive – while at the same time, we're often searching for something familiar to what we already know.
3. Tell us about how you’ve been using photography lately? What are you making or putting in front of the lens?
Currently I'm working on a project within my home, about me and my daughter, so the quarantine time was ideal to work on that. I'm mostly recording in an obsessive way my daughter's childhood and all it's creative spectrum.
