DEFRAGMENTING EDEN

Galerie Sara Lily Perez presents the group exhibition Defragmenting Eden, bringing together works by Tanja Selzer, Laura Eckert, and Daniel Sambo-Richter.

Eden – traditionally understood as a mythical place of innocence, abundance, and origin – appears in this exhibition not as a harmonious whole, but as a broken and reassembled landscape. It is reframed as a site where beauty endures through fragmentation, and where destruction and renewal coexist.

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Defragmenting Eden presents paradise as a state in flux. Defragmentation implies a dual movement: disintegration and reconstruction, loss and creation, rupture and renewal. This exhibition views Eden not only as a biblical or mythological concept but as a metaphor for personal, ecological, and collective states of being.

In the dialogue between Selzer’s intimate tableaux, Eckert’s salvaged and reconfigured sculptures, and Sambo-Richter’s serene abstractions, Eden emerges not as a fixed place of origin but as a living process - desire turning into…