‘Trace Evidence’

Trace Evidence': In art, the presence of physicality engenders a symbiosis. An exchange between artist and observer that relies on the act of creating to understand creation itself. This record of activity resides primarily in the process. When the process is made visible, when an artist consciously leaves traces of life, the encounter with his work goes beyond casual viewing to convey the purity of imperfection and the 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 explores the need for biography, referencing essayist Roland Barthes' doctrine of the "death of the author" and how character need not condition interpretation. Instead, it favors those shared glimpses of circumstances, episodes and incidents. Art as lived experience.