Popel Coumou has been shaping her own reality. Just as a painter uses paint to translate reality onto his canvas, she searches for ways to express her vision on reality through photography.  Photography has undergone a major transition in recent years, with the question of what is still photography becoming more prominent. Popel's work is certainly part of this development, balancing on the border between photography and painting, but also between reality and fiction.

The artist plays in her work with the main elements of photography: light, paper and perception of reality. Popel Coumou creates empty spaces, graphic lines and compositions verging on the abstract. The idea for the project she presented at Unbound was to “make something between photography, flat surface and the three dimensional object”. The installation consists of a collage of different layers of styrofoam plates with photographic prints and a photographic print on the floor. Popel plays with the contrast between the material used, the space depicted and the natural skies.

Her collages, having previously only served as a basis for the photo, are now enlarged to monumental formats. Thanks to the addition of light, they balance between an object with relief and an almost breathing photo with an enormous sense of depth.

Filling the Cracks presents a journey through boundary-breaking photography at Unbound 2021.