Trace Evidence

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In art, the presence of physicality breeds symbiosis. An exchange between artist and observer that relies on the act of creating to understand the creation itself. Such record of activity resides principally in the process. When this becomes visible, when an artist consciously leaves traces of life, encountering their work surpasses casual viewing to convey the purity of imperfection and complexity of human expression. 

The works of Tom Anholt, Igor Moritz, Sola Olulode and Ivana de Vivanco in ‘Trace Evidence’ divulge material and mental environments through narratives of a shared cultural existence. This exhibition inquires into the necessity of biography, referencing fundamental understandings of essayist Roland Barthes doctrine of the ‘death of the author’ and how character need not condition interpretation. It instead favours those shared glimpses of circumstance, episode and incident. Art as lived experience.

Fragment of the text by Vanessa Murrell.