Exhibition - Between circuit and soul
is a fragmentary exhibition by Elian M. Varek. Three large-format works explore the tension between nature, technology and human feeling. The trilogy is not seen as a closed narrative, but as an open space for thought - quiet, poetic and deliberately unobtrusive. It doesn't show answers, but rather states: root, machine, human. A fragment of the present in the in-between.
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Between circuit and soul is not an exhibition in the classic sense.
It is fragmentary.
An attempt to make states visible that evade solid form:
Root, machine, human.
Three works.
Three areas of tension.
A movement in the in-between.
This trilogy by Elian M. Varek weaves nature, technology and emotion into a visual dialogue about being human in the age of systems.
A quiet protest.
A poetic memory.
A fragment of the present.
Exhibition view: Between circuit and soul
Curated by Elian M. Varek – as part of the LaborArtorium
There is no complete narrative between the circuit and the soul.
It is an open space in which images do not explain but rather negotiate.
Each work stands on its own.
Together, however, a field is created in which thinking, feeling and perception do not have to be separated.
“Art here is not a representation – it is a negotiation.”
The visitors move through the room in silence.
Not because silence is required,
but because what is shown does not require any noise.
These works don't scream.
They whisper.
And anyone who takes the time will realize:
They whisper about us.
Of what we lose.
Of what we already are.
And what we might be able to become again.
“Art is a space in which systems can breathe – and hearts can beat again.”
— Elian M. Varek
Scene 3: Heart & System
Quietly. Clear. Painfully beautiful.
On the left a heart made of light and threads - vulnerable but radiant.
Legal order systems, forms, architecture like shackles.
A broken mirror in the middle.
Not destroyed.
Not lost.
White room.
Soft light.
No music.
Just breath.
It's not loud.
But it remains.
Scene 2: Beyond the circuit
Here we are really in between.
On the left there are pulsating structures, nerve-like, almost plant-like.
Right grid of logic, clear and cool.
In the middle a silhouette, broken up into fragments.
Man loses form.
Maybe wins connection.
The white between the poles remains open.
A zone of consciousness.
Scene 1: Root or Delusion
A single image space.
Left: a glowing forest, animals, breathing like an old song.
Right: cold chimneys, industrial silhouettes, stray shadows.
In between there is an invisible crack.
Not loud.
But finally.
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