| The utopian promise of improvement celebrated during the heyday of modernity has devolved in the postmodern digital age to a detachment from real life and lived experience. The discontent that underlies the generations born into the fast-faced contemporary world has become the main subject of my work. My series Aphasia explores these feelings of alienation and delusion. At first glance, lonely figures are portrayed in mundane and trivial settings, but the situations don’t always have a clear visual logic. The intentional pseudo-narratives staged in all of the shots raise unanswerable questions to the viewer. What I am trying to denounce is the insecurity that divides us from ourselves and leaves us vulnerable to the uncertainty of the world at large. | 
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Eriver Hijano
The utopian promise of improvement celebrated during the heyday of modernity has devolved in the postmodern digital age to a detachment from real life and lived experience. The discontent that underlies the generations born into the fast-faced contemporary world has become the main subject of my work.
My series Aphasia explores these feelings of alienation and delusion. At first glance, lonely figures are portrayed in mundane and trivial settings, but the situations don’t always have a clear visual logic. The intentional pseudo-narratives staged in all of the shots raise unanswerable questions to the viewer. What I am trying to denounce is the insecurity that divides us from ourselves and leaves us vulnerable to the uncertainty of the world at large. The scenes are quiet and melancholic, and the title of the series suggests the loss of speech as words today are of minor importance compared to images.
My work shows the influence of artists such as Edward Hopper and photographers such as Gregory Crewdson and Panos Kokkinias. Like their subjects, mine seem to be alone and vulnerable in their human conditions. The subjects in my work are confronted with and entrapped by their own lost paradise.
