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 vulnerability, fragmentation opening up new possibilities, and transformation arising from reimagined fragments. Rather than depicting devastation, the interplay of these artistic voices suggests that even in broken moments, the garden remains a space of hope, beauty, and gentle renewal.