Lea Joergensen

I initiated an explicitly voyeuristic exercise: documenting people completing mundane activities, in the liminal spaces of our collective everyday experience.

I capture them during their free time. On their commute. On buses, trains and platforms – which spaces are preserved for us to do nothing in – time is allowed to wash over us. We can but sit – read, listen or watch – and wait, together.

My attention is focused upon the ubiquitous, mundane, restrictive suit. Its simple appearance, so omnipresent as to be taken for granted, disguises a complex construction, and layers of symbolism.

Observing the body within the suit, I extrapolate upon softer moments – when its wearer is in motion, shifting, slouching or docile.

This process allows me to aestheticise the mundanities of the everyday.