Book Special Edition • 1/88 • Dissemination begins 16.04.26
Singular
Fragmentation
Above the River and Under the Sky
One original. 88 irreversible cuts. 88 custodians.
Each tile represents one fragment of the original diptych. Fragments light up as their owners verify their book via QR code. The grid reveals itself slowly — one custodian at a time.
Enter your name, email, and a preferred fragment number. Numbers are assigned first come, first served — your preferred number is not guaranteed, but we will do our best to honour it. You will receive full details before dissemination begins on 16 April.
A single chromogenic diptych — 120 × 115 cm of irreplaceable emulsion — is cut into 88 fragments and dispersed across 88 books. No reproductions. No reprints. The original dissolves entirely into the edition. Each of the 88 books holds one original fragment. No one owns the whole. Everyone owns a part of it.
There are two panels. Each 60 × 115 cm of chromogenic emulsion — together 120 cm wide, a single panoramic diptych. It was never editioned. It was never reproduced. It exists once, as two joined surfaces, before the cut.
A 4×11 grid is scored into each panel — by hand, in complete darkness, by the artist himself. No mechanical cutter. No light. Forty-four fragments per panel, eighty-eight in total, each 15 × 10.45 cm. The edges are not perfect. They carry the tremor of a hand working blind — making each fragment unique not only in what it holds, but in how it was separated from the whole.
Each fragment leaves with a hand-written inscription directly on the emulsion: "Motiongraph #[title], [date/time/location], 1/88." Not an edition mark. A timestamp of dissolution. The act of writing on the surface is the final gesture before the fragment departs.
You own 1/88th of one artwork — a piece from one of two panels that once formed a whole. Not a copy. Not a reproduction. A real piece of the only thing that ever existed. Your fragment stands on its own, and yet it is forever part of something larger — a picture that only 88 people together could put back together — and maybe one day they will.
What remains in the gallery is absence. A cutting diagram showing both panels. Two empty frames at original scale. The places where fragments once lived, now void. The show documents a destruction that was also a distribution — auto-destructive, chromogenic, irreversible.
Dissemination of the edition begins 16.04.26 at 8:44 AM. 88 books. 88 fragments. One dissolved diptych. Cut by hand, in complete darkness, by the artist himself.
"Each of the 88 books holds one original fragment. No one owns the whole. Everyone owns a part of it."