Error in Ypsilon

After the industrial disaster of the nuclear plant in Chernobyl, 1986, people started to suffer from serious diseases, children who were born with distortions and commodities started to shape differen

The series ‘Error in Ypsilon’ explores how visible and invisible disasters can leave traces on bodies, landscapes, and the ways we perceive the world around us, where he creates and engages with notions of attachment, loss, transformation, and the impact of disruption on perception and memory. The images function as psychological landscapes in which internal processes are translated into physical forms and spatial conditions. These details suggest how environments may carry traces of forces we cannot always see or fully understand.

The series is inspired by historical events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. An explosion at the power plant released large amounts of radioactive material into the environment, spreading across parts of Europe. Although largely invisible, people started to reconstruct their environment after finding out about the possible effects of the radiation. Some suffered serious diseases and many children were born with distortions and developmental disorders. The natural environment was contaminated, causing long-term genetic mutations and ecological disruption.

He approaches the series during the period of isolation caused by the global pandemic in a documentary style with elements of fiction, drawing on his own experience of being born with a cleft lip nine years after the disaster. While there are clear medical and genetic explanations for his condition, it also led him to reflect on how large, unseen events might shape our bodies and our lives.

‘Error in Ypsilon’ connects a personal narrative with collective history, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility of our bodies and the world we inhabit.