Fleeting Fish in the River of Fragments

Like fragments of a broken world, torn pieces of images drift through our perception. Advertisements, posters, and brochures flood our everyday lives, shaping our visual memory with promises, desires, and artificial realities. The collages in this exhibition take these mass-printed materials, cut them into tiny pieces, and reassemble them into new, floating compositions—just as scattered plastic particles find their way into the vast ocean, dissolving into something that is everywhere and nowhere at once.

Much like fish in Plato’s allegory of the cave, whose entire world is confined to the shimmering reflections on the water’s surface, we navigate a reality shaped by endless visual stimuli. The familiar is deconstructed and rearranged, shifting perspectives and revealing unexpected patterns. The more closely we observe, the more the seemingly solid dissolves into fragments—an illusionary construct of collective images.

With about two hundred collages, each 30 x 30 cm in size, "Fleeting Fish in the River of Fragments" creates a current of fleeting impressions. The works oscillate between abstraction and recognition, movement and dissolution, challenging our perception of the visual flood that surrounds us.