2025

Counterpart

photography, uv print

In this project, I work with urban surfaces as sources of images that are extracted from their environment and transferred into the exhibition space. I photograph fragments of walls and reproduce them at a one-to-one scale on gypsum fiber panels. The image retains its scale, proportions, and surface traces, yet becomes detached from its original location. At this moment, the image splits into two objects with different trajectories, and over time this divergence becomes visible on their surfaces.
The wall fragment ceases to function as part of urban infrastructure and exists as an autonomous object. The transfer of the image fixes a state that no longer exists in real space. The divergence between the object and its site unfolds through time and the accumulation of change.

In the city, the wall may be repainted, covered, or demolished, while its duplicate remains more fragile, gradually deteriorating through storage, transportation, and exhibition. Both objects continue to change, but according to different logics and at different speeds.
The project examines the distinction between presence and representation, between surface as part of an environment and surface as image. Duplicate does not attempt to reproduce a place, but refers to a moment in the past when the image separates from its source and begins an independent existence.