Fragments of Innocence
Fragments of Innocence is a collaborative installation by Klaus Wiechenthaler, uniting Helena Bednorz’s contemporary figurative charcoal drawings with Peter Wiechenthaler’s hand-crafted sculptural glass elements.
The work consists of ten small, wall-mounted cubes, each containing layered sheets of glass with fine horizontal slats. Within these intimate, box-like objects, fragmented details of a human figure — an eye, a mouth, parts of a face and body — appear and disappear. The layered glass creates shifting optical effects: as the viewer moves through the space, the image continuously transforms. What is visible from one angle dissolves into abstraction from another, revealing new fragments while concealing others.
Rather than presenting a complete portrait, the installation deliberately resists wholeness. Identity emerges only through the viewer’s physical movement and changing perspective. The glass is not merely a protective surface but an active medium that refracts light, generates depth, and blurs the boundary between presence and absence. It turns the act of looking into a dynamic, almost performative experience.
Untitled explores the fragile and elusive nature of human perception, memory, and desire. Like memory itself, the portrait remains incomplete — constantly shifting, just beyond full grasp. The work hovers between drawing and sculpture, object and illusion, inviting repeated viewing and personal discovery with every new encounter.
Through its quiet, hypnotic presence, the installation transforms the wall into a field of intimate, moving images that speak to the ephemeral quality of how we see and remember one another.
