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Imaginary cities

Project Type

Screenprint and linocut

Date

since 1998

Cities have long served as symbols of civilization, progress, and human ambition. Yet beyond the places we inhabit lies another kind of landscape: one shaped not by geography, but by memory, dreams, and the subconscious.
These works do not depict real locations. Instead, they present imagined architectures that reflect the boundless yet labyrinthine nature of the human mind. Monumental structures, geometric forms, and silent statues stand in the absence of human life, leaving their scale and purpose uncertain. Without familiar points of reference, these spaces exist outside any identifiable time or place.
I am interested in creating environments that feel both compelling and unsettling. They invite the viewer to question where they are, when they are, and whether these vast, deserted worlds were ever meant to be inhabited. Suspended between the familiar and the impossible, these imaginary cities evoke a quiet sense of mystery, isolation, and unease.

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