Tracing Absence
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
10th May - 2nd June 2024
Tracing Absence brings together works by several artists who find reflection in empty spaces where human presence is silently implied. Abandoned objects, rooms and buildings, empty roads and lonely horizons become ambiguous scenes, to which only a trace of life that came before or after is alluded.
Drawings by Marie Harnett also suspend a moment in time, but in her work human presence takes on a physical, ghostly dimension. We can trace the outlines of figures in the intimate settings of a party or bedroom. Harnett captures film stills which she overlays to make highly detailed drawings. A sense of unease pervades the drawings, as the perspective suggests we are intruding on the scene.
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