Paradox
2015
Paradox explores the inherent instability of perception and the constructed nature of reality. Without relying on digital manipulation, the work reveals how our everyday visual experience is already fragmented, shifting, and abstract. Each piece captures moments where the physical world appears to dissolve, questioning the boundary between what we see and what we know to be real. The images suggest that reality itself is kaleidoscopic and constantly re-configuring into new patterns of meaning before dissolving again. Through this lens, the work proposes that illusion and truth are not opposites but fluid states that transform our understanding of the material world.
The exhibition's central element—a pillar with the statement poem layered on multiple sheets of plexiglass, culminating in a two-way mirror—creates a physical manifestation of these concepts. Viewers reading the poem simultaneously encounter reflections of both the first and final photographs in the series, collapsing the linear narrative into a single, layered moment. This installation mirrors the work's central premise: that perception itself is always multiple, always layered, and always in dialogue with memory and expectation.