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Room No. 607, 2021

Performance / video documentation, (2’31’’)
Acrylic on calico fabric, 150 x 300 cm

Room No. 607 originated as a painting performance developed from the experience of remaining within a space after a shared relationship had shifted into absence. The work responds to the sensation of time passing through an environment that has become emptied, where presence has withdrawn but its traces continue to linger.

During the performance, Emma reenacted ordinary past gestures—touching, embracing, moving, resting, and marking rhythms, allowing pigment to register these actions onto fabric. Through this process, what once existed only within memory is compelled into a public and irreversible state.

The work raises a question of persistence: when time alters bodies, relationships, and spatial conditions, can individual existence be preserved, or can it only be evidenced through residue? The resulting stains, garments, and surfaces function as material witnesses to a was being: a state suspended between presence and absence.

By translating an irreversible temporal event into spatial remains, Room No. 607 reflects on loss, proof, and the quiet insistence of traces that continue to exist after their origin has disappeared.

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