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Carcosa: Everything Within and Without
Mixed-Media Analog Collage, 50x40 cm, Found Material, Japanese Watercolor and Gold Leaf Paint, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper
Exhibition: Places that Aren’t, Božidarac National Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2025
“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.” - Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
Twisting and turning as a chimeric kingdom, swallowing pieces of different civilizations and fragments of ancient wisdom - Carcosa is in equal parts a terrifying and beautiful labyrinth. A mirror realm offering everything and anything that is, was, and will be - Carcosa stands as the realm of the thinker, a utopia for man's unending search for knowledge, the unquenchable desire to know and collect more. Though, to what end? Is the utopia built on the thirst for knowledge not an assurance of madness, of a thirst ironically unquenchable? - Moshe Shamah
Carcosa: Everything Within and Without
Mixed-Media Analog Collage, 50x40 cm, Found Material, Japanese Watercolor and Gold Leaf Paint, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper
Exhibition: Places that Aren’t, Božidarac National Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2025
“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.” - Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
Twisting and turning as a chimeric kingdom, swallowing pieces of different civilizations and fragments of ancient wisdom - Carcosa is in equal parts a terrifying and beautiful labyrinth. A mirror realm offering everything and anything that is, was, and will be - Carcosa stands as the realm of the thinker, a utopia for man's unending search for knowledge, the unquenchable desire to know and collect more. Though, to what end? Is the utopia built on the thirst for knowledge not an assurance of madness, of a thirst ironically unquenchable? - Moshe Shamah