What’s missing, isn’t gone , 2025
360 cm x 150 cm , hand-tufted wool
Part of the group exhibition ‘Survival of the Fittest’ at The Edit Gallery curated by Mariandrie
A dark green carpet that fades to pale is crossed by a wound, a cut in the surface, like a memory that was never spoken yet declares its presence. The work does not represent; it hints. It does not narrate, but reveals through silence. A space defined not by existence but by absence. A dense void. A line that crosses, a strip that defines, a wound that divides the land.
The installation proposes a place, common,intermediate, immaterial, where cartographies fail and ground persists. Memories without image or sound are woven into the fabric, the bodies, the stillness of space, the untouched carpet.
The line functions as a pause in the flow. A reminder that there are spaces we have not experienced (spaces that do not become places), yet they define us. They are not imprinted on maps, but return in tangible silence—memories that will not be created, distances that will not be walked.
The work is an ode to absence, to silence—not as loss, but as density. A memory that is not imprinted remains. A place that belongs to no one and yet speaks for everyone.
research image from google maps depicting the Green Line