PARALLEELIUM

Paralleelium started in 2020 with an idea of parallel worlds.

It is a projection of reality, interpreted through quantum reality: a way of looking at familiar places, memories and possible futures as if several versions of them could exist at once. From its beginning, it has formed a reality of its own, as intended. The series started with a collection of artefacts: patterns, concepts of spaces and studies in material.

Throughout time and distance, Paralleelium has expanded in many ways. What began as a collection of artefacts has branched into unique digital works, pattern series, monumental graphics, room concepts and sculptural furniture.

Eternal Garden gave the world its botanical memory: unusual, scarce and extinct plants inhabiting spaces beyond ordinary time. Endless Ocean carried the same sense of parallel life into another landscape, where depth, colour and growth become their own kind of architecture. Across these branches, Paralleelium continues to move between digital and physical form, between imagined rooms and tangible materials.

Each work is part of the same larger world. They are not separate stories, but different projections of a reality shaped by nature, memory and the choices that may have led us elsewhere.

Paralleelium is an amalgamation of art and design, a celebration of the changing nature around us. MA+KE lab seeks to tell stories about lost and forgotten things in heavenly shade and glorious technicolour: drawings and patterns, concepts, furniture and much more imagined into existence in parallel worlds.

Our desire is to engage people with new ideas and create a better understanding of the world around us. We have been working together in the context of a world in crisis. This has drawn our minds towards alternative ways we could be living.

The feeling of responsibility, but also the need for escape, resonates from all over the world. Not knowing which way the tables will turn for future generations, we wonder and dream even deeper about all the realities that could have manifested if decisions had been made differently.

The Paralleelium is a portal to another world: a world where flora has taken over what humans have left behind. It is a beautiful, ethereal reality, full of growth and bloom. We do not know where the world we once knew has vanished. But we know that nature does not turn into nothingness when all else has dispersed.

The first series of Paralleelium brought explorers to different doors that hid different realities. Spaces that seem like distant memories — the parallel world is somehow familiar, but in many ways different and not the same. Beautiful, quiet and eternal. Paralleelium lets you travel into this parallel universe, full of beauty, walking hand in hand with melancholy.

For this second international showing, MA+KE lab returns to works from the first iteration of Paralleelium. They are not entirely new rooms, but neither are they simply shown again. Their earlier digital forms have been reinterpreted through new colours, new versions and a new material presence. These particular colour worlds have not been seen before.

Reproduced on stainless steel, the works carry the original lore forward while changing with their surroundings. Each piece measures 4 × 8 feet. The steel creates a bridge between the physical gallery space and the artworks presented within it. Its reflective surface catches the viewer, the architecture and the changing light, allowing our own reality to appear briefly beside the quiet, overgrown worlds of Paralleelium.

In these new versions, the rooms reveal different possibilities within themselves. Their colour changes shift the mood, temperature and sense of time. Chome Idotacho, in particular, has moved further into growth: the room begins to turn into jungle. What was once an interior becomes denser, wilder and less certain of its original borders.

The titles and geographical coordinates have always connected these rooms to the physical world. They allow viewers to see parallels between different aspects of reality: a place we recognise, and another version of it that has continued without us. These new iterations offer further insights into those parallel realities — not as fixed alternatives, but as worlds still changing, branching and becoming.