Archive photo-print, steel, acrylic, / 2024 /  3 pieces, 20 × 20 cm  

The project consists of three images, each depicting the same basic construction: the intersection of a white vertical line and a black horizontal line. In front of each image, a different optical layer is placed: the first is covered by a square louvre lens fixed horizontally, the second by the same lens oriented vertically, and the third by a transparent plexiglass sheet.
The lens functions as a visual filter: in the horizontal position, only the horizontal line is visible; in the vertical arrangement, only the vertical one. Thus, we can perceive only one directed aspect of the structure at a time. The third image – in which both lines appear simultaneously – does not resolve this tension, as the view still reaches us through a transparent yet separating layer.
The three perspectives together form an optical experiment: what do we perceive, and what is projected onto us by the limited system of perception? Can there be a single, authentic visual reading if every image reaches us through filters, viewpoints, and perceptual distortions? The work shifts the focus from the content of the image to the mechanism by which vision creates – and simultaneously rewrites – the illusion of reality within a fragmented perceptual space.