Exhibition

From the perspective of those who begin to write or draw, or more generally, those who plan to create something, whatever it may be, the world is flat, nothing but the plan surface of the sheet in front of us.

The creation of nature works the same way. On a quantum physical level, everything begins with nothing but a naked field filled with pure motion that has no dimension (or is infinitely multidimensional, which is pretty much the same thing). So we can say that in the beginning there is the „Marvellous Flat“.

Thinking about the beginning in terms of a „Marvellous Flat“ has radical implications for how we understand and act in the world we inhabit: for the design of togetherness, the design of the environment, and the design of our joie de vivre. This, at least from our point of view, is the reference for designing the 21st century, which is also the reference of the studies at the Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt. Some of the results can be seen in the exhibition.

Deleuze’s idea of a flat surface that can be folded to create space encapsulates a dynamic process of transformation. It symbolizes the move from simplicity to complexity, from the exterior to the interior, and from the potential to the actual. This concept, rich in metaphorical and literal implications, is central to Deleuze’s philosophy of space, subjectivity, and becoming.

A flat surface, in this view, is just one possible state, and through the process of folding, it can evolve into different spatial configurations. This folding creates “interior spaces” within the larger structure of the surface, symbolizing the creation of new, enclosed spaces out of something initially open and flat.

In art, the fold can be seen as a way to understand the movement from two-dimensional to three-dimensional spaces, where surfaces interact with each other to create depth and meaning. Just as a flat surface can be folded to create space, human consciousness and subjectivity can be seen as a series of folds—internal complexities that form our experience of the world. In this metaphorical sense, the self is not a flat, transparent entity but a folded, multilayered construction.