What are the seemingly inconspicuous factors connecting us? Can parameters that separate us also bring us together? Where do closeness, belonging, and division take place? How are bonds and cohesion articulated in everyday situations?

In the exhibition Things Are Closer Than They Seem, the Sensored collective, a group of 14 photographers from the OSTKREUZ School of Photography in Berlin, addresses the delicate boundaries that define closeness and distance in everyday life. The works illuminate tensions between individual freedom and external pressure, the invisible barriers that can separate and yet also connect us. The show presents places that, once considered centres of life, now bear witness to change, as well as people fighting against external and internal resistance.

Through intimate, yet universal scenes, it becomes clear how things that appear distant are often closer than they seem. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in these realities of life in order to reflect on the subtle forces that shape our relationships.