Presence does not disappear. It settles into memory, material, landscapes, gestures, and the traces we leave behind.
What remains after a moment passes? What survives after a gesture, a place, a memory, or a life changes course?
Traces of Presence brings together artists whose practices explore what lingers beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the exhibition considers presence not as something fixed, but as something carried through memory, matter, process and perception.
For some artists, traces emerge through intimate narratives and lived experience. Roxana Bergt transforms still-life compositions into vessels of memory, resilience and emotional inheritance. José Yaruro revisits classical forms through a contemporary lens, creating dialogues between antiquity and present-day concerns. Marie Deforche paints moments of stillness and solitude, where light, landscape and absence become quiet forms of presence.
Elsewhere, traces are embedded in systems and materials themselves. Luca Mancone transforms fiscal receipts and thermal paper into layered visual compositions, extending the life of a disposable object and preserving fragments of contemporary life that usually disappear unnoticed. Eilena Braye translates microscopic structures and scientific observation into vibrant abstraction, revealing invisible rhythms that sustain life. Justyna Maria Porowska works between painting and architecture, constructing spaces where geometry and memory intersect. Didier Van der Borght photographs manipulated materials, discovering unexpected silhouettes and imagined figures hidden within transformed surfaces.
Across these diverse practices, the exhibition reflects on fragility and permanence, on the seen and unseen, and on our relationship with a world increasingly defined by change. In an era marked by uncertainty—ecological, social, political and personal—Traces of Presence invites viewers to slow down and consider what remains.
