Siphons, passages, portals. In front of some exit, on a neighbouring street, beside your cup of coffee, right above a narrow path through the grass. They are there — around us, everywhere. You might catch a glimpse of them in your peripheral vision as you hurry along your way, though you rarely pay them much attention. Every sorrow, every damage, every small malfunction slowly pours through them and drains somewhere beyond this world. They must exist — otherwise the world would drown in so much sorrow.

The works included in the exhibition largely reflect a search for a new direction and hint at a narrative that is only beginning to unfold. Exterior and interior spaces — places, situations and fragments that bear witness to human states, most often in the absence of the human figure itself. Some of the works date back to 2020 but are only now reaching their element of “completion”. Others have been realised in the months and weeks leading up to the exhibition.

Within the images — most often urban-natural fragments — these “transitional elements” can be recognised: gaps, sinkings, whirlwinds, siphons — peculiar portals leading elsewhere. They appear in the periphery of the gaze, as zones of passage between states, where lived experience gradually settles, dissolves, or is simply carried away.

Continuing the general tendency toward fluidity and visual softness, the present series anchors itself somewhat more firmly in the concrete and the surrounding environment, while retaining the principles of ambiguity and sense of vagueness that have characterised the artist’s work in recent years.