“Elsewhere” is something we already know through images. Before we arrive, places are already shaped by visual culture, travel photography, and digital media. The experience of a place is thus preceded by a (fragmented, idealized, detached) image and creates an imaginative place.

In this sense, photography does not simply document the world; it participates in its creation. As an echo of this constructed world, the repetition of an image of “elsewhere” also becomes desirable and ultimately leads to an actual transformation of the places (through increased tourist traffic, development, and even hyper-tourism).

Bali is not presented here as an individual place, but is intended as an exemplary pictorial space—overlaid with exoticism, projection, and expectation. Through fragmentation and recomposition, the collages demonstrate how the “elsewhere” is continuously constructed, consumed, and re-staged, and increasingly call the pictorial representation into question.