Collective Imaginary, 2020 - ongoing

Collective Imaginary exists in flux. The image evolves below the threshold of short-term memory, yet perceptible to other regimes of mnemonic perception, particularly as the viewer moves through the exhibition space.

Composed of several thousand images of a chosen idea the work presents itself as the arithmetic mean of these images, revealing only their global appearance: a palette of colours, an atmosphere. Unlike the conventional regime of the image, it is a midpoint between all existing viewpoints, yet the cartography of a dominant imaginary.

The database is destined to evolve indefinitely, throughout the duration of its exhibition and between presentations — at the pace of the continuous accumulation of images shared by humans across the internet, books, or social media. No artificial intelligence model intervenes to restore meaning: the database becomes sensible in itself, offering the contemplation of a raw mathematical process — a drift from calculation toward sensation, without interpretive mediation.

Collective Imaginary is an inquiry into objectivity. It embodies a median point shared by many observers, yet inhabited by none — a view from nowhere.