Foundations
What Is the Invisible?
There are things that elude the gaze — not because they are hidden, but because they exist beyond the surface of the visible. The Invisibles is an exploration of this threshold: between what the eye perceives and what consciousness senses.
The series emerged from a dialogue between human imagination and artificial intelligence — a conversation parus has been conducting for years. Not as an experiment, but as artistic practice: the will to form, refracted through the algorithm and returning as something unforeseen.
At its centre lies the Fourth Reduction — the dissolution of the face as the last bastion of identity. When the face disappears, posture remains. When posture falls silent, light remains. And when light fades, the question persists: Who is there?
"The Invisibles is not a work about disappearance. It is a work about what remains."
— parus (Albert Schaeffer)
Constitutive Elements
Five Foundations of The Invisibles
The Four Reductions
An Art-Historical Genealogy
The Black Square eliminates representation and reduces painting to pure color and form.
The Black Square eliminates representation and reduces painting to pure color and form.
Color fields dissolve geometric forms and reduce painting to pure experience.
Color fields dissolve geometric forms and reduce painting to pure experience.
Judd, Andre, Flavin: No symbolism, no expression — just the object itself, as it is, in space.
Judd, Andre, Flavin: No symbolism, no expression — just the object itself, as it is, in space.