Installation view, Tomorrow: You Will Disappear, and So Will I, Art Foundation Anagi, Tbilisi, 2025.
"The feeling of sand, the smell of the sea, the slow dissolution of colour paradoxically intensify the illusory optical dimension, where disappearance is not an end, but a state."
— Mariam Shergelashvili, Art Historian, 2025
Shot in 2025 on the coast of Arcachon, France, this photographic series by KetoMa explores the fragile coexistence of space, time, and disappearance. Presented at Art Foundation Anagi through Crop Up — a new exhibition initiative of Gallery Fotoatelier — the work transforms an inherently unstable landscape into a meditation on transience, perception, and the dissolution of fixed boundaries.
Arcachon, situated on the edge of the Bay of Biscay, is a terrain in constant negotiation between sea and land. Sand islands emerge and vanish; the horizon never remains fixed. Europe's tallest sand dune rises nearby — a geological formation that, in KetoMa's lens, becomes both symbolic motif and sculptural subject. The scale of the place and its perpetual movement render the landscape as a living sculpture, where stability exists only as temporary illusion.
For the artist, the Arcachon coastline is not a record of geographical travel but an encounter with the bodily and spatial dimensions of the border itself. Sea and boundary, dissolution and approximation — the disappearance of clear contours draws the viewer toward a more subtle meta-state. In the photo series, images that differ from one another only in small details invite a gradual recognition of change: insignificant, yet decisive. The sensation of sand, the scent of the sea, the slow dissolution of colour paradoxically intensify an illusory-optical dimension in which disappearance is not an end, but a condition of being.
Arcachon, situated on the edge of the Bay of Biscay, is a terrain in constant negotiation between sea and land. Sand islands emerge and vanish; the horizon never remains fixed. Europe's tallest sand dune rises nearby — a geological formation that, in KetoMa's lens, becomes both symbolic motif and sculptural subject. The scale of the place and its perpetual movement render the landscape as a living sculpture, where stability exists only as temporary illusion.
For the artist, the Arcachon coastline is not a record of geographical travel but an encounter with the bodily and spatial dimensions of the border itself. Sea and boundary, dissolution and approximation — the disappearance of clear contours draws the viewer toward a more subtle meta-state. In the photo series, images that differ from one another only in small details invite a gradual recognition of change: insignificant, yet decisive. The sensation of sand, the scent of the sea, the slow dissolution of colour paradoxically intensify an illusory-optical dimension in which disappearance is not an end, but a condition of being.