Sina Yome Link

A central element in Sina Yome Link’s work is the variability of seeing. From which perspective do we see the world? What can we know? What do we overlook?

In her works, the motif often eludes us at first glance and only reveals itself through participation or from a different perspective. Seeing or looking requires active action.

Photographed with a flash, the printed negative of the work is transformed into a positive. Thus, in a fleeting, reversible process, the motif becomes visible through light. The true nature of the Mediterranean only becomes visible through the use of a camera flash. The seemingly calm surface of the sea then becomes a vast, turbulent sea that hides its history beneath the surface.

Sina Yome Link’s works deal impressively with the situation of refugees in the Mediterranean. They address the (in)representability of human suffering and the limits of photography.