“Köhler's visual universe arises from a desire to inhabit gentleness as a form of resistance. In contrast to the speed, noise, and saturation of contemporary life, his work proposes a slower rhythm, a return to contemplation and feeling. In his iconography, the river, whispers, and light intertwine as signs of the transition between worlds: the flow of thought, the voice of the unconscious, and the silent revelation of the spirit […] ”

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