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Pass by Me, Penetrate Me, Destroy Me



2023-24
Digital photography
Various cities, Germany

Glass is never transparent. It stages the act of exposure, calling the eye in. [1]

Glass is also transparent,
It is the material that eliminates the existence of time.

Starting in October 2023, I observed the phenomena of shattered glass façade in every place where I temporarily stayed in Germany. Only when the texture of rifts crawling over the surface does the invisible become visible.

The emotions left visual traces.

I am intrigued by how daily visual phenomena influence our hearts and emotions. Therefore, in its first exhibition (I called it “part 1”), I brought all my embodied experiences related to glass and the idea
of transparency and time into one space through different mediums, trying to evoke viewers’ self- reflection through them as well.



[1] Colomina, Beatriz. X-Ray Architecture. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2019. Print. p149.

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