AMBIGUITY
Where perception is challenged and meaning hesitates

Ambiguity exists in the moment when perception pauses — when the eye recognizes form, but meaning is not immediately clear. This exhibit explores that pause, through reflection, repetition, and abstraction. These photographs are not straightforward depictions. Instead, they look at how familiar places can unsettle orientation, disrupt our sense of space, and blur the line between what is seen, what is felt, and what is understood.

Architecture is often associated with order, permanence, and stability. Yet when viewed through reflection, compression, and unconventional viewpoints, what we see or perceive can behave in unexpected ways. The photographs in this exhibit evolve across three walls, each presenting a distinct expression of ambiguity. The wall to your left introduces visual fragmentation and instability. The center wall intensifies this experience challenging the viewer’s ability to resolve space. The final wall offers a quieter counterpoint, where architectural detail gives way to abstraction, and ambiguity becomes contemplative and soothing, rather than disorienting.

AMBIGUITY invites viewers to linger in that uncertainty — not as confusion, but as an opportunity to look more closely and to see familiar spaces in new ways.

— Alan Sislen, March 2026