Symbol — EN

In the Symbol series, an elementary set of signs—square, circle, cross—is deployed as a strict, almost alphabetic starting point. The forms appear as fragments of a larger whole and are brought together through cropping, displacement, and reordering to create new signs. They look familiar, as if referring to an existing code, but their meaning remains deliberately undecided: symbols without a fixed key. This creates images that balance between recognition and estrangement—a signature language of their own that suggests a system rather than designating something unambiguous. At the same time, the series explores how power and ideology shape human experience. The series shows how abstract forms and colors can harden into charged emblems with political, social, or mystical weight. It reveals how groups collectively assign meaning to signs—and how these shared interpretations crystallize into identities and ideologies. By placing and manipulating the emblems within an art context, their emotional and ideological operation is dissected, exposing the underlying conditioning by religion, civilization, and politics. In doing so, the Symbol series examines the architecture of our worldview: how language, signs, and symbols structure reality and channel human drives. Within the series, the fragmentation and manipulation of traditional emblems is also central—circles, squares, and crosses that return in new forms and configurations. The signs, painted or executed in wood and other materials, are presented in such a way that their conventional meanings shift through placement, context, and interrelation with surrounding works. By taking the symbols apart and reconstructing them, the works explore themes such as identity, ideology, and collective memory, inviting viewers to reassess the power and meaning of these familiar forms in a contemporary context. Another layer of meaning is that the series also functions as an investigation into the primal symbol. Within the geometric unity of cross, circle, and square lies a foundation: like invisible DNA, a metaphysical blueprint that determines the direction of development even before it becomes visible in the world—or as a worldview. It is a genetic code: a sphere that underlies the human being, the body, and the body politic. Even before a civilization assumes its outward form in architecture, legislation, or art, it already exists as pure potential within this foundation—the necessary seed from which both individual and culture emerge.