Awe constructs a photographic fiction of catastrophe within the intimate space of the home, where smoke becomes the sole trace of an unseen fire. The recurring wildfires in Greece, now an annual reality, erode not only the landscape but the sense of safety tied to domestic life, exposing the fragility of the home itself. Familiar interiors from the artist’s homeland are transformed into suspended scenes of tension, spaces that appear quietly endangered, holding the subdued anticipation of disaster.

Photographed across homes belonging to different generations of the artist’s family, each room, emptied of its inhabitants yet filled with traces such as the indentation of pillows or the familiarity of furniture, evokes a disrupted intimacy. Smoke, a signal of unfolding danger, here settles into stillness. It functions as both material and metaphor, engaging in a paradoxical dialogue with interior light. Rendered in black and white, the smoke erases color and time, heightening the atmosphere of suspension and uncertainty.

By freezing the instant before catastrophe, Awe evokes a threshold between disaster and transcendence, a psychological space where unease gives way to reflection. The work becomes a controlled rehearsal of loss: in the absence of fire, smoke assumes an ambiguity that transforms fear into contemplation. Awe investigates the dialectical relationship between fear and fascination that emerges when disaster is viewed from a position of safety. In this tension, the work reveals how the contemplation of catastrophe exposes both human fragility and the enduring capacity for empathy continuing the artist’s exploration of domestic space amid states of crisis.