Street Artist
in Residence

In Heterotopia, Guy Kokken presents a series of layered photographic works in which existing images merge into new, uncanny realities. By overlaying multiple photographs, he creates spaces that resist a single time, place, or logic. What we see feels familiar—yet fundamentally unstable.

The title refers to the concept of heterotopia, introduced by philosopher Michel Foucault: places that fall outside the everyday order and contain multiple realities at once. In this exhibition, the images function as such "other spaces"—assembled from fragments of the visible world, but rearranged into a photographic fiction.

At a time when image production is increasingly outsourced to algorithms and artificial intelligence, Kokken deliberately chooses a non-algorithmic approach. Each work is built from his own photographs and emerges through an intuitive process of looking, selecting, and bringing elements together. The layering is not a digital effect, but a conscious artistic act.

Heterotopia invites the viewer to slow down and lose themselves in images that offer no fixed perspective. The works hover between document and imagination, between reality and dream, raising questions about how we look, remember, and make meaning of what we see.