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Presence | Absence

By  Vanessa Rolf 2022
Presence | Absence explore the significance of inherited objects and their capacity to tell stories. The traces of a person are imprinted in these mundane, utilitarian possessions. These works pay with the visual language of museums and collections; questioning what and how we preserve, protect and memorialise.
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Dry Lakes

Maps & Legends (detail)

To Skovorodino

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