JAN WOLD
Parallax series 2026
Where you stand determines what you see. At Once, In Intervals points to the fact that no view is ever complete: the statement is literal. The same object, seen from another position, can look like a completely different thing. All of those views are accurate. None can reveal the work in its entirety.
The Parallax series begins there. Each work is a fixed, unchanging form from which multiple realities can emerge. The only way to find them is to move.
At the heart of the work is the idea that our understanding is never separate from the place we occupy in the world. We often believe we see things as they are; more often, we see them from where, and who, we are. Every image, every narrative, every map is shaped by perspective. Each carries the position from which it was made.
Each piece asks something of the person standing before it, bringing their own history, their own angle, their own moment into the encounter.
This is true of these objects, and it is true of how we see one another and the world around us. There is always more than we can see from where we stand.

Aletheia (off white) 2026 archival card paper, acrylic, 296 x 296 x 135 mm | Edition of 3

Aletheia (off white) 2026 archival card paper, acrylic, 296 x 296 x 135 mm | Edition of 3 - side view

Doxa (neon orange) 2026 acrylic paint on archival card paper, acrylic, 450 x 450 x 280 mm | Edition of 3
