Mari Nagem 
The Splash
2021, concrete, wood, acrylic paint, and light

The Splash illustrates the central paradox of life on screens: we are diving deep, immersed, present —but in reality we are skimming a flat, luminous surface. Mari Nagem draws on philosopher Pierre Lévy's idea that virtuality is not the absence of reality but a transformation of it — a change in how we inhabit time and space. In the shared dimension of virtual and real, what does it mean to be present? Diving into shimmering water becomes a metaphor for our connection to the digital: weightless, borderless, and seemingly boundless.