Lauri Koppel "Point Alef"

GÜ Gallery 15.– 27.09.2025 

Mon–Fri 12–18

The opening 15.09 at 18.00

The exhibition “Point Alef” consists of fragments of websites. The works were completed in two periods: 2013 and 2025.

The 2013 works were based on real estate portal websites, while the 2025 works draw from the homepages of various data centers. The digital color model (RGB) has been translated into the printing model (CMYK). The works are printed in four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the number 1, and a symbol of supreme divinity, encompassing the universe since the beginning of time. The founder of set theory, Georg Cantor, used alef to denote the size of infinite sets; mathematicians call his formulation aleph-zero. Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges described, in his short story The Aleph, a point that gathers all other points in the world.

Printed on paper, these website fragments become fixed points—limited, yet suggestive of boundlessness. A seemingly random digital cut can reflect an entire invisible system: economic, technical, personal, and universal.

Lauri Koppel (b. 1986) studied graphic arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA, 2008; MA, 2012). Since 2010, he has worked as master printer at the offset lithography workshop Ubu Noir. He has been awarded the Eduard Wiiralt Art Prize (2022) and the Wiralt scholarship (2010).