COCA

“Stacked,” Albert Kaan’s exhibition, brings into relation his practice of overlapping forms with a site that carries its own layered history. Surfaces of paint and plaster remain exposed, allowing the space to be read as an accumulation of interventions rather than a fixed backdrop, a parallel that emerges directly from the existing condition of the interior. The works follow a similar logic: layers are built through the addition, displacement, and partial covering of forms, so that each stage remains present within the next. Intention, alongside hesitation and revision, stays visible across both the works and the architecture as part of how these layers are formed. Identity, in this context, does not resolve into a unified whole. It develops through superposed shapes that persist and shift over time, where each layer remains legible even when partially obscured. The works, composed of LED lines and shapes, trace and follow figures that accumulate into a shifting visual structure. This produces a presence that is continuous yet fragmented. The space operates in parallel. A small, intimate restaurant with unfinished walls, it exposes its own layers of paint and plaster, making visible a history that has not been fully covered or resolved. Identity here emerges through this coexistence of layers, rather than through coherence. The resulting whole is not singular or fixed, but produced through the coexistence of these accumulated strata, where each addition alters without erasing what came before. text and curation by Georgia Tidorescu