The Dilemma Of Diorama
2023

The half-offered, half-withheld structure of a diorama provides a space for aleatory and open representation. The painting placed above the diorama can be viewed from dierent perspectives becoming part of through various shared environment.
The paintings surrounding the diorama gesture to spaces elsewhere and are based on found photographs of mirrors and their reflections*. At the core of The Dilemma of Diorama, clear visibility and condition of knowability are subverted. A world is presented that can simultaneously be stored and displayed.

*These photographs were found on an Ukrainian online marketplace website. I consider these images of mirrors a tool for recording historic conditions, an ephemeral social/material matrix of a certain moment in time. They form an archive, which I started gathering since the beginning of war.