Discovered incidentally while researching locations, the village first captured Kulesza’s attention through an immediate visual jolt. The rounded forms sit low in the sand, their imperfect, hand-wrought surfaces reading as if they were shaped by other beings with an entirely different logic and purpose. Each dome carries its own orientation and personality; they are clustered together like a small, secluded family in the heat of the desert. Although only two years old, the place feels strangely unmoored from time, suspended between past and future.At a moment when so much of what we consume is digitally generated or exists only on a screen, Distant Districts is grounded firmly in lived experience. Kulesza’s work has long explored the tension between the real and the seemingly fabricated, and here that questioning is central. The images invite a second look. Are these structures relics, prototypes, fragments of a forgotten civilisation or the remnants of a speculative future? That uncertainty is less a puzzle to be solved and more an atmosphere to inhabit.
