"KARYON gathers the distances of the world and lets them speak.

He reminds us to listen beyond the boundaries we draw."

This work connects three different visual sources: a satellite photograph of Berlin taken by NASA’s Terra spacecraft, a wooden sculpture from the Mumuye culture of Nigeria, and an image of the planet Mars derived from photographs taken by Viking Orbiter 1.

In the satellite image, Berlin appears from above as a complex fabric of forests, rivers, fields, and urban areas.

The African sculpture belongs to the Mumuye tradition of Nigeria and is known as iagalagana or lagana. Such wooden figures were historically used by healers and diviners to embody protective spirits. Beyond ritual use, they could also guard homes, serve as spiritual companions, or mediate disputes.

The image of Mars presents a much more distant planetary perspective. The mapping of its surface reveals vast geological formations, including the immense canyon system Valles Marineris, which stretches for thousands of kilometers, alongside ancient volcanoes and channels suggesting the presence of flowing water in the distant past.

A city seen from space, a figure created to carry a spirit, and the landscape of a distant planet place different scales of existence side by side, human, earthly, and cosmic. In their meeting emerges the possibility of listening to the signs left by the world and by history.