Ode to the Unnoticed, 2025

Mixed media installation. Dimensions variable. Wall painting, LED lighting, sound. 8 light objects.

“Ode to the Unnoticed” is a tribute to what usually remains at the periphery of everyday experience – sounds, objects, and transitional spaces that we see but do not truly perceive. The work focuses on layers of perception that exist outside conscious attention – fragments of experience that resist verbalization, yet settle into the body, the subconscious, and the echoes of sensation. The starting point of the installation is a personal experience of involuntary memory – a moment when a seemingly insignificant stimulus, the hum and flicker of fluorescent lights, triggered forgotten sensations: the orange hue of walls, early morning heaviness, the damp surface of a chalkboard, sticky wooden desks. Light and sound, which typically blend into the background and are automatically filtered out, suddenly became central – like a gateway leading to a previously unacknowledged memory space. Here, space is not merely a backdrop, but one of the work’s central elements – it actively participates in shaping the viewer’s experience. Instead of presenting a narrative, it invites conscious presence. A division of color marks a transition from a neutral, unlayered present to a space imbued with memory. Rather than conveying any particular message, the installation creates the conditions for inner resonance – a place in which the viewer becomes aware of their own presence in time and space. This is not a reconstruction of memory, but rather a spatial turn towards what is usually overlooked – silence, background noise, and slowly accumulated sensations that, in a single moment, may become audible, visible, meaningful.