The Structure of Care

In this ongoing series, the hospital is considered as a shifting condition - a space where care is structured and at times distanced through rigid systems of movement and control. Drawing on Marc Augé’s concept of ‘non-place’, the work initially captures the hospital as an unsettling environment where the individual is stripped of their traditional identity and redefined as a patient number, navigating a landscape of corridors and thresholds through wayfinding designed for transition rather than presence.

However, the project simultaneously uncovers a secondary layer of ‘place’ hidden within these sterile structures. By attending to the subtle, lived details of those who work within these walls, the series reveals a counter-narrative: for the practitioner, the hospital is not a non-place, but a site of intense community and shared history. Through this lens, the institution is transformed from a site of clinical process into one of human routine, where identity is shaped by the very structures that seek to organize it.

“To be human is to live in a world that is filled with significant places.” - Edward Relph