On view at The Rooster Gallery from November 19 through December 6

The exhibition explores paradoxes in the structure of the world and apparent oppositions that become interconnected within the paintings. “Us” and “others,” observer and observed, desire and fulfilment, culmination and ending do not exist here as strictly separate categories, but rather as shifting relations in which one position continually moves into another.

The garden gnome appears in the exhibition as a figure of otherness – familiar and yet slightly alien. It observes, plays tennis, and finds itself on a diving board, confronted with a dilemma. The presence of the gnome invites reflection on what defines the boundary between “us” and “others,” as well as on who occupies the position of the observer and who becomes the object of observation. These questions resonate with Donna Haraway’s ideas of situated perspective and the instability of boundaries between humans, other forms of life, and the surrounding world. The exhibition does not offer a single privileged viewpoint from which the world can be fully comprehended. The viewer, too, is placed within a system of relations in which subject and object cannot be clearly separated. What initially appears strange or different gradually becomes a mirror in which our own assumptions about what is normal, familiar, and acceptable can be seen.

Another significant motif is that of monocarpic plants – flowering bamboos and agaves, whose flowering simultaneously becomes a moment of culmination and the end of their life cycle. They raise the question of what happens after the culmination, when the event towards which everything seemed to be moving has already taken place. A similar uncertainty runs through the other works: who has turned on the light in the only illuminated window at the top of the building? What does the blue elephant long for? Who is watching us, and what are we actually watching?