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by Andrew Birk at Galeria Alegria
June 26th - July 25th, 2026
High beams, brights, are blinding, but they also illuminate the road in the dark hours.
Suddenly a hare darts by, a glimpse of a hedgehog or some kind of badger on the bank;
sometimes, if lucky, the apparition of an antlered stag in the distance, motionless for an
instant under the car's flash—quickly disappearing off the frame; with less luck, a wild
boar, a nocturnal and crepuscular animal, appearing suddenly and erratically charging
against the headlights in its dazzlement.
Late at night, driving through the fields, anything is possible. Sightings, crossings,
dimension shifts. In the contrast of the cold, artificial glow against the backdrop of the
forest running its course, the photo appears, revealing what we didn't know was already
there. In this place, stone houses, straw bales, and iron fences still exist in the same
immutable form, a leap back in time.
The fingerprint is the first painting, a primordial index in the…
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Portals
by Andrew Birk at Galeria Alegria
June 26th - July 25th, 2026
High beams, brights, are blinding, but they also illuminate the road in the dark hours.
Suddenly a hare darts by, a glimpse of a hedgehog or some kind of badger on the bank;
sometimes, if lucky, the apparition of an antlered stag in the distance, motionless for an
instant under the car's flash—quickly disappearing off the frame; with less luck, a wild
boar, a nocturnal and crepuscular animal, appearing suddenly and erratically charging
against the headlights in its dazzlement.
Late at night, driving through the fields, anything is possible. Sightings, crossings,
dimension shifts. In the contrast of the cold, artificial glow against the backdrop of the
forest running its course, the photo appears, revealing what we didn't know was already
there. In this place, stone houses, straw bales, and iron fences still exist in the same
immutable form, a leap back in time.
The fingerprint is the first painting, a primordial index in the…
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