LAX Laboratorium | Collections

Solitude is a visual research into the space between departure and arrival; a state in which identity is no longer fixed, yet has not fully taken another form. Rather than treating solitude as isolation, the work approaches it as a condition of heightened perception, where the self becomes both witness and subject. Across fragments of time, place, and experience, the photographs record the quiet negotiations through which a life continuously becomes itself.

Roots & Ladders traces the interplay between land and water through the intricate forms of tangled roots and towering ancient trees. The work approaches plant life as a structure of relation, simultaneously anchored and in constant exchange with its surroundings. What appears rooted and still is, in fact, part of a continuous movement of growth, exchange, and decay.

Melting World observes the retreat of glaciers as a meditation on permanence. The project captures the fragility of ice through a single frame; its silent fractures and rhythmic dissolution, revealing a delicate balance that is often taken for granted. It is an ode to vanishing landscapes in the wake of a warming planet, confronting the unsettling reality that what endured for thousands of years can disappear within a single lifetime.

As Above, So Below is a mixed media installation, named after the Emerald Tablet, the cryptic alchemical text articulating the principle of correspondence between different planes of existence. The work contemplates the invisible threads that bind the cosmos, through which seemingly separate realities mirror and inform one another, proposing a threshold where distinctions between inner and outer, near and distant, self and world begin to dissolve. Juxtaposed images from across the world fold distant geographies into a shared temporal field, suggesting that separation may be less a condition of existence than of perception.

On The Road is a limited edition of still frames from the short film FLUX: On The Road. The work questions the division between subject and object by treating the road not as a passage between places, but as a field in which observer and observee continually exchange roles.

Traces observes the trails left upon the land by years of accumulated movement. Erosion, passage, displacement, and repetition leave behind patterns that appear accidental yet carry their own quiet consistency; evidence of what has passed through. The collection approaches these traces as a kind of unwritten history, where time becomes tangible through what remains.

SevenSeas follows water across oceans, seas, and rivers as a continuous body that refuses the borders imposed upon it. Geography divides its surfaces into names and territories, while the element itself remains in perpetual circulation. The series considers water as a model of existence in which movement is the condition through which continuity is maintained.

Ritipanna documents the endangered method of fishing, unique to Sri Lanka, rooted in a harmonious connection to the sea. The fishermen hover between land and water, occupying a threshold where livelihood, ritual, and landscape become inseparable. In a practice increasingly threatened by changing environmental conditions and economies, the images become a record of a particular way of inhabiting the boundary between livelihood, culture, and the sea.

Into The Wild is a photographic archive inspired by a recurring pull toward places where the human presence becomes quieter and the land takes precedence. Desert, mountain, jungle, ocean, and sky appear as variations within a larger inquiry into humanity's relationship with the nature, while the series become a record of repeatedly returning to the question of what reciprocity means. “Wilderness” is not necessarily a place untouched by humanity; for many Indigenous peoples, land is not wilderness at all, but home, kin, memory, and living relation. The series lingers within this tension, asking what it means to enter a landscape not as a spectator, but as a passenger, a temporary inhabitant of something that was already there and will remain after we leave.

Amazonia is a photographic encounter with the riverbanks and rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon, where water, vegetation, weather, light, and human presence exist in an ever-shifting rhythm. The work moves between the intimate and the immense, drawn toward the density of a landscape that breathes beyond the limits of the frame.

Bound/Less follows water across lands shaped, carved, crossed, and transformed by its movement. From canyons to rivers and waterfalls, the work observes an element that is constantly taking form while never remaining within it. Water accepts every boundary as a temporary condition, flowing around it, through it, over it, and eventually beyond it. In this perpetual movement lies its paradox: unbounded, yet always in relation to the world it passes through.

Kinesis & Inertia examines the tension between movement and resistance through the language of the earth. Soil, stone, mountains, and deserts become evidence of forces operating across radically different scales of time; from the imperceptible to the geological. The series considers stillness as accumulated movement: matter carrying within its apparent permanence the memory of everything that has acted upon it.

White Heat follows the white peaks of the mountain ranges suspended between immensity and silence. The frames confront the limits of human scale against geological formations that exceed individual lifetimes, while snow and ice introduce a more fragile temporality into their apparent permanence. The mountains become less an object of conquest than a measure of duration, reminding the body of its own brief position.

Shades of Stillness is a series of video artworks contemplating the elemental presence of Earth through land, texture and time. The soil and the trees become vital encounters with what holds, grounds, and nurtures. Through the slow unfolding of image and sound, the works invite a return to stillness and embrace the feracious power of being rooted, held, and present within something larger than oneself.

Echoes of Endings & Beginnings is a series of video artworks moving through the rhythm of Fire; destruction, transformation, and renewal. Fire consumes, alters, releases, and begins again, revealing an unprecedented continuity. Through moving image, the works enter this perpetual cycle of dissolution and emergence, not merely as a physical phenomenon but also a metaphor for unearthly transition.

Tales of the Invisible is a series of video artworks tracing the presence of Air through the tangible and intangible. Invisible yet ever-present, Air carries the sensation of being weightless and utterly unbounded. The works wander through space and time, breathe alongside the audience, gradually drifting and dissolving.

Currents of Impermanence is a series of video artworks following the nature of Water; fluid, ever-changing, and fully present within its movement. Water does not speak the language of resistance; it moves with it, around it, through it, continuously transforming. Through this collection, Water invites the observer to surrender to the present moment; ever-changing and incomprehensible.

Flux : On The Road follows two wanderers whose repeated encounters form a continuous cycle of attachment, separation, return, and departure. Moving beyond a linear narrative, the work collapses timelines into a single recurring movement in which the distinction between “me” and “you” gradually loses its certainty. What begins as a story of two becomes an inquiry into whether separation was ever anything more than a way of perceiving the whole.

Orada, meaning 'there' in Turkish, is an audiovisual work inspired by the repetitive nature of dialogues and behavioural dynamics within relationships. The piece explores the dialogue of pure togetherness in the moment. The solo cello piece interweaves seamlessly with the visual narrative, each transcending the other in an sensory juxtaposition. Although they exist independently, they effortlessly synchronise within the same temporal space, seeking to communicate their inner thoughts, which reside not here but there, in the realm of 'orada'. Repetition, in its purest form, becomes a surface for re-imagination through this symbiotic relationship between sound and image.

Yesterday gathers fleeting encounters in which past seems to momentarily repeat itself: an atmosphere, a gesture, a fragment of architecture, a beam of light that feels instinctively familiar. Moving between near and distant pasts, through urban details and inexplicable moments of déjà vu, the series considers memory not as a reliable archive, but as a porous space where experience, anticipation, and recollection overlap. It is an imperfect archive of what has been, where memory transforms ordinary moments into something that continues to exist beyond their time.

TektoniKa is a photographic archive observing the forces, rhythms, geometries, and spatial tensions through which light and void shape the experience of space. Between permanence and transformation, the built environment becomes another form of landscape; shaped by human presence, yet continually altered by time, light, and perception.

Flicker observes the city through the unstable rhythm between movement and suspension. Fragments of bodies, infrastructure, sound, and light are assembled into a continuous loop in which urban time appears to accelerate and stall simultaneously. Filmed in Berlin and Istanbul, in the hours when both cities are expected to sleep, the work turns its attention toward the residual movement that persists beneath the appearance of stillness.

Indian Dreams is a photographic collection born from encounters across India; from rituals, landscapes, architecture, faces, colours, and fleeting everyday moments. The frames move between the unfamiliar and the strangely familiar, between what is witnessed and what is imagined, a multitude of impressions that remain long after the journey has ended.

Flux : Water is a research on movement as a condition of existence, unfolding through a continuous exchange between moving inward and outward. The work places action and stillness within the same temporal field, questioning whether apparent opposites can exist without one another. Drawing attention to the nature of water, the installation invites the body into its rhythm, gently guiding the audience from being and observer into the observee.

CyanoAmazonia is a sunprint photography collection born along the riverbanks of the Amazon rainforest. Multiple still frames are woven together, juxtaposing interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and traces of human presence, creating alternative realities where distant moments and places begin to coexist. The collection explores how nature can become a way of seeing; carrying the spirit of the jungle beyond its physical boundaries.