Aisthetikos – Beyond the Invisible
Part I & Part II
Colin Hollidge, working under the name Colinci, is a fine artist whose practice combines traditional image-making and composition with contemporary, digitally controlled illumination. His layered works are animated by light that pulses slowly in and out, so images hover between visibility and obscurity rather than settling into a fixed view.
Visually, the work operates with street-art language. Psychedelic colour mirrors urban visual codes — bold, direct, and immediately readable — drawing the viewer in before attention shifts to what is usually overlooked. Across the practice, themes of visibility, power, and marginalisation are central.
Aisthetikos I focuses on structural invisibility: the everyday systems that sustain society while rendering certain lives, labour, and presences unseen. Benches, chairs, and transitional urban spaces recur as quiet witnesses to absence, displacement, and overlooked human presence.
Aisthetikos II moves more explicitly into the social and political realm. Here, the work addresses situations in which lives are not only overlooked but rendered disposable, referencing displacement, healthcare systems, consumer culture, and idealised social narratives. Imagery remains symbolic rather than literal, allowing space for reflection rather than spectacle.
Each work is accompanied by a small mosaic, installed permanently in public space as a discreet marker beyond the gallery. This extends into The Colinci Code, a participatory project in which access to a work is conditional: those who locate and decode its coordinates gain the right to claim it.
Together, both parts operate within Colinci World — a space where reality never fully settles, but continually drifts between presence and obscurity.
Why Aisthetikos Matters
In a world saturated with images, Aisthetikos reintroduces the act of looking. By using illumination to reveal hidden narratives, the work encourages viewers to question what lies beneath the surface — in the environment, in society, and in themselves.
The artworks shift with light, mood, and time, offering a dynamic viewing experience suited to collectors, designers, curators, and anyone drawn to contemporary, perception-based art.
‘Light has always been more than illumination for me—it is energy, resonance, and transformation. In my light series, I capture that living force, allowing an idea to germinate like a seed. Through layers of light, reflection, and form, it grows into something tangible yet ethereal, a fusion of the seen and unseen that feels both magical and alive’
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