Trace (2025)
Seed Photograph (2025)
Digital black-and-white photographic print on fine art paper
Installation (2025)
12 black-and-white photocopies on bond paper, letter size (8.5 × 11 in each), adhered directly to the wall in a grid-like arrangement with
masking tape
Video (2025)
Black and white, 2:01 min, silent with abstract soundscape. Paper intervention as part of the installation process.
In this work, sheets from the installation are pulled, torn, and discarded, exposing the marks repetition leaves behind. The action enacts erasure through insistence, echoing how domestication gradually erodes essence.
Collage (2025)
Black-and-white photocopies torn and reassembled on watercolour paper, sealed with matte medium
CONCEPTUAL note
TRACE explores what is lost and what persists when repetition becomes a form of control. Beginning with a single digital photograph of Keixpa, the work unfolds into multiple gestures: photocopy-like iterations arranged as an installation, a torn and reassembled collage, and a video where sheets are pulled from the wall and discarded.
Across these forms, the process enacts erosion through insistence. Each repetition alters the image, draining clarity and reducing presence, yet never erasing it fully. The fragile surfaces—creased, torn, blurred—echo how domestication operates: not through abrupt force, but through persistence and routine.
TRACE does not document but stages this tension. It insists that even within cycles of reproduction and erasure, something remains. A ghosted figure, a residue of resistance, an essence that refuses to disappear.
Photography by Mao Sanchez, under the creative direction of the artist