The youth of today live at a time where uncertainty about the future has attained epic proportions, fuelled
by a distrust of politics, institutions and the media. The mass of contradictions created by past
generations has left them with a lot of grey areas. As a result they are overcome with apprehension
and a multifaceted anxiety about their place in a confused, changing world – a world without any
reliable points of reference and a thousand different forms of violence.
It is this moment in life, a time of soul searching and self-discovery, that Coco Amardeil wanted to
capture through her series of around twenty images. This generation that will make up the world of
tomorrow – without having much of an idea of where they are going or what they want – is just
trying to keep their heads above the sea of stimuli that surrounds them.
