Marja Saleva
He Is So Obsessed With Me
The images are from my online work He Is So Obsessed With Me (Online story), 2017. It is a personal story about a single woman around her forties. It can be viewed at www.heissoobsessedwithme.com. The work consists of more than 3 000 images and text. The viewer has to interact with the narrative, arriving constantly at crossroads where he/she has to choose which way to go.
The online work deals with the course of life. It rambles around the questions of causality, chance and choice. It questions the notion of one truth, the possibility to tell about one’s life in one single and truthful way.
He is so obsessed with me plays with the real and the imagined. The photos are originally documentary, whereas the title character He is imaginary. He represents the look of someone else, through whose eyes the main character is viewed – or photographed.
My approach to photography is expressive and experimental. I see photos as a material that I can do anything with. Through the rough working process the images lose their connection to reality and become representations of dreams, fantasies and feelings. In my work I deal with the subjectivity and unreliability of seeing, experiencing, remembering and narrating.