Changing Experience, Experiencing Changes; ONCA Gallery, Brighton (UK)
Created for the exhibition “Changing Experience, Experiencing Changes” at ONCA Gallery in Brighton, this site-specific installation reflects on transformation as a continuous dialogue between human actions and natural systems.
Positioned in the gallery window and visible from both inside and outside, the work was conceived as a threshold rather than an object. Its double-sided structure invited two simultaneous perspectives, suggesting that every ecological reality depends upon the position from which we choose to observe it.
Constructed from strips of recycled paper interconnected by delicate threads, the installation evokes the image of a forest without directly representing one. The suspended elements resemble trunks, branches and pathways of light, while the threads reveal the hidden relationships that sustain every living ecosystem.
The forest appears fragile, yet resilient.
Individual fragments become meaningful only through their connections, echoing the intricate networks through which trees communicate, exchange nutrients and support one another beneath the soil. What seems separate is, in fact, profoundly interconnected.
Recycled paper carries with it the memory of previous lives. Transformed into a new landscape, the material becomes a metaphor for regeneration, demonstrating that change is not a rupture but an ongoing process of renewal.
Standing between interior and exterior, the installation invites viewers to inhabit a space of transition—a place where personal experience meets collective responsibility, and where every small gesture contributes to the larger ecology of the world.
To experience change is ultimately to recognise that we are not outside nature, but woven into its ever-changing fabric.