BETA45

BETA45 is not a person, but a project. A version number originated during university studies as software that never existed: Beta version 4.5, never finished, never released, but in use. What remains is a running program.

BETA45 combines photography, printmaking, painting, and augmented reality to create large-format collages of layers, levels, and planes. The motifs reveal how growth becomes visible: skyscrapers, cable bundles, concrete embankments, stilt houses, harbor cranes – structures poised between order and chaos, often found in the less attractive corners of cities.

Each work has a second layer that reveals what the first conceals: facts about sinking cities, overfished lakes, ghost nets in the ocean, or heat trapped between glass and concrete. These layers are made visible via an AR app. The images are beautiful, powerful, and unsettling all at once. They ask what human civilization leaves behind.