Must See: "Traces of Us: Recent photography"
Artforum
March 10, 2025
Artforum has included “Traces of Us: Recent Photography” in their “Must-See Shows” list, an editors’ selection of essential exhibitions worldwide. The group exhibition features new and recent works by Farah Al Qasimi, Widline Cadet, John Edmonds, Pao Houa Her, and Guadalupe Rosales.
The exhibition assembles five contemporary artists who employ photography to observe, document, and complicate personal histories and wider collective experiences. Though varied in their approaches, each artist preserves and creates cultural memory by challenging prevailing concepts and structures. Their works underscore the particular environments and inherited pasts that have informed them, while simultaneously bringing these aspects into the present.
Evocative objects, uninhabited spaces, and constructed portraits allude to concepts of self and community, while questioning how fixed memories can be. Obscured or absent figures echo throughout many of the photographs as remnants of histories, while some portraits suggest a reclaiming and/or forming of a past and sense of self. Reframing perceptions of culture as fluid, unfolding, and informed by a particular perspective, each artists’ work stretches across geographies and pasts that are real, imagined, and monolithic.