Punctum Contra Punctum:

Punctum Contra Punctum — “point against point” — borrows from the musical concept of counterpoint: two independent melodic lines that contrast yet coexist. The title reflects a life between Ukraine and Switzerland, where two realities shape each other without either disappearing.

Migrants carry at least two worlds at once — and when those worlds find no common center, they fragment. This fragmentation, and the disorientation it produces, is what the project explores: a body and mind caught between two places, two rhythms, two states of belonging.

The project consists of two short videos, both accompanied by a metronome — a steady pulse indifferent to where one is.

In Disorientation, the camera alternates between a side view of the body spinning around its own axis and the point of view from within that rotation — the world blurring from the inside. A physical act of being lost in space.

In Search, I attempt to recreate my own body’s position — previously photographed and now projected onto the wall. An effort to locate oneself through an image of oneself, clumsy and never quite accurate. It is about the instability of that search, and the necessity of accepting it rather than resolving it.

The project is still ongoing.