Calling From Work
Karel van Laere
Amsterdam
In Calling From Work, Karel van Laere calls his parents while taking a walk. During a three-month stay in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, he would call them once a week. While his parents often had no idea where he was, he knew exactly where they were: in the living room, on the couch, right next to the Wi-Fi router. For the conversation itself, this made no difference, but the contrast between their familiar voices and the diverse locations he found himself in created an absurd kind of reality for him. Call