Window Exhibition: Facial Traces
Facial Traces is a window exhibition running from 9th – 18th of May. In this duo presentation, Lore Pilzecker and Ellen-Rose Wallace explore themes such as loss, transformation, time and absence-related rituals. In our work, we ask ‘How can I develop a language around absence? How can I create a voice to speak about what is no longer present?’ Facial Traces is an exploration of performance, film, drawings, wood constructions, ceramics and photography.
Ellen-Rose Wallace is an Irish artist based in Rotterdam. In Facial Traces she reflects on issues surrounding chronic illness, care, and anticipatory loss. Within her work, there is often an emphasis on human absence, while the things we leave behind are centred. These objects are displaced or misused, sometimes acting as accidental or inaccurate horological instruments. Through film, photography and sculpture, she explores how the experience of time can be articulated through unfinished, unending or cyclical narrative structures.
In Facial Traces, Lore Pilzecker presents an art installation with pencil drawings, embroidery, ceramics and performative interventions. In these artworks, she researches the absence of a loved one. Coping with the stillness, the artist discovers her own alternative reality in which the distinction between growth and demise becomes blurry. In the drawings and sculptures, Lore plays with symbols that refer to loss of life. An example is the Rose, a flower you could lay on a grave in respect to a deceased person.
