Our bored bodies
2020
55 instant photographs, sewing thread
55 instant photographs, sewing thread
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Topakian was repatriated to France from an artist residency
in Turkey. She arrived at her boyfriend’s place, whom she had only met recently,
with nothing more in her luggage than a few clothes, a homemade instant camera
that she had created for her residency, a lot of Instax films and a sewing kit
from her hotel. As an attempt to keep a grip on reality and to stay busy, she
started photographing the things around her: her boyfriend, the spring blossoms
she saw during her night walks, or the parrots that fly behind her window every
evening. She used the sewing kit to embroider some of the photographs, which
allowed her to kill time.











