Spectral Echoes;
The Side of Human

kohesi Initiatives is pleased to present Spectral Echoes; The Side of Human, a solo exhibition by Dede Cipon.

For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Cipon examines the nature of the cyberspace system—the invisible structures that calculate, predict, and filter what we see. Cipon’s starting point for this new body of work stems from a personal observation living in a world where being online has become the default condition, where perception itself now seems shaped by interactions within the virtual world of cyberspace, mediated through vast data exchanges, interfaces, and machine processes.

Rather than responding to these hidden systems through digital media that mirror them, Cipon uses drawing to represent an act of interruption. Through analog mark-making, he reintroduces human touch into what is otherwise impersonal, automated, and precise. It slows the velocity of the coded world, exposing how those structures are absorbed, distorted, and then reinterpreted. Mistranslation becomes a method that lets the distortions and small failures of these systems show themselves as they pass through a human body.

The imageries emerge from observing how these systems behave: how they organize, repeat, evolve, and break. Cipon likens this idea to studying the “physics” of cyberspace. By applying digital structural elements such as grids, repetitions, glitches, network nodes, and layered data streams through manual gestures, Cipon attempts to transform the immaterial logic of the machine into tangible marks. They become a trace of dialogue, part intuition, part observation, where mechanical precision and human fallibility meet halfway. The exhibition presents Cipon’s ongoing investigation into how systems and structures arrange our ways of seeing, where he uses diagrammatic elements to trace those connections.

Spectral Echoes; The Side of Human considers how humans adapt to the hyper-digitalized reality surrounding them. These works are not intended as imitations of digital imagery, but as meditations on its presence within the thinking of humans. By slowing down, admitting error, and inviting contemplation within the age of relentless acceleration, Cipon attempts to understand how the systems operate and interact, and how, by looking more carefully, we might unlock another way of understanding them.