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CHLOE COMPTON
TO EXCAVATE AN ABSENCE
To Excavate an Absence explores how memory is experienced, remembered, and mapped through physical connections to landscape. Informed by the language of erosion and archaeology, the exhibition parallels erosion occurring in the landscape with the excavation of fragmented personal histories. The sculptural forms evoke platforms, memorials, and headstones—visual languages that also resonate with genealogy charts, maps, and geological diagrams—reflecting the human impulse to anchor memory in place. Central to the work is the tension between presence and absence—revealed through voids, traces, and layered forms. Projection elements extend this exploration, inhabiting the uncertain space between material and immaterial, between what remains and what fades.
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