The Shape of What Remains Now

Bracha L. Ettinger

Dor Guez

Tarik Kiswanson

Julie Mehretu

Ian Waelder

Carlier Gebauer is pleased to present The Shape of What Remains, a curated showroom with works by five artists.

Moving between personal and collective histories, the works approach memory not as a stable record but as a process of transformation. Images are displaced from their original contexts, materials absorb the marks of time, and what has disappeared returns in altered form. A flower leaves its imprint on paper; a photograph blurs into history; a garment carries the memory of bodies and traditions; news images dissolve into gestures and erasures; a painted figure emerges from the shadows of collective catastrophe. The archive becomes a living surface, where the traces of the past continue to carry into the present.