“In the meantime” is a photographic essay dealing with the theme of play related to the author's personal environment and his own memories. According to Victor Turner's boundary phase theory, play is a moment that escapes ordinary social structures, creating inter-structures in which the traumas of everyday life can be worked through. In this series, I look at the play experiences of my friends, family and my own memories of play, trying to show their distinctiveness from everyday life. This idea leads me to Henri Cartier Bresson's theory of the decisive moment, in which play represents, in a sense, a decisive moment, but one that is completely incompatible with social norms, with an individual surreal character. In this sense, play becomes for me an anti-systemic activity, and a way to find one's own place in the overwhelming contemporary reality.
