Located in the heart of Karlsruhe, Germany. A vibrant cultural city in the border triangle of Germany, Switzerland, and France. DCS CONTEMPORARY produces exhibitions, publications, discursive, and learning experiences to forge an interpretive understanding of local and global phenomena in art and society.

The gallery works with talented local and global artists of renowned stature and offers spaces to young artists it considers promising. We support our artists in dynamic exhibitions and projects and pay special attention to our audiences and clients’ intellectual and aesthetic interests. Creating bridges between artists and art passionate.

With over 20 years of experience in the arts, Founder and Director Dr. Dana Corina Schmidt embrace diasporic voices, utilizing the space as a platform for exhibitions, museum visitations, public lectures, performing arts, new media. As well as a meeting point for artists, curators, scholars, and writers.

Contemporary Art Gallery

Karlstrasse 43, 76133 Karlsruhe
E: gallery@dcscontemporary.com www.dcscontemporary.com

ALPHADIALECTS OF TIME

September 2026

ALPHADIALECTS OF TIME

Cosme Rada

 

Digital Exhibition

DCS Contemporary Gallery
Karlstr. 43, 76133 Karlsruhe
gallery@dcscontemporary.com
www.dcscontemporary.com

There are certain patterns, types of frequencies that in turn become a language, signs of intercommunication between the tangible and intangible; they function as an information channel involving elements in an optimal way. These patterns emerge before certain physical phenomena, or rather, by the influence of time, especially when some force or accumulation of energy strikes these elements, creating a connection between them that obeys structurally geometric and originally natural forms, making them coincide in a harmonic order.

An example of such patterns is the "Alpha" Electromagnetic Frequency Brain Waves that our brain emits to enter a state of relaxation; they are precursors of clairvoyance, the appreciation and aesthetic perception, and the creative vision of our human mind. These frequencies draw a specific repetitive language in the shape of their waves and arise under a lethargic rhythm in states of calm.

Likewise, and in similarity to said language, that calm induced by the emission of such waves and mental information patterns is the main characteristic possessed by the Altar Desert in its dunes and sands, where the lethargy of time has extended for thousands of years. The wind itself, little by little, has been giving shape to a frequency system in its repetitive slide over the sand, creating its own language that, upon manifesting, transforms them incessantly, recreating between dune and dune a dialect that seems encoded, as if it were those "Alpha" thought waves but native to the desert. Through an increase in the force of the wind and its movement, it seeks and manages to communicate with our human thought, creating a bond that provides and sustains a visually harmonious perception coincident with the subtlety of its forms.

Cosme Rada. Photographer.