Residual Warmth
The project engages with the trace of presence — a brief alteration of the environment that arises after touch, movement, or occupancy. A thermal image captures neither the event nor the body itself, but its residue: a temperature shift that exists only for a short time. The material of the work is the artist’s personal space — everyday objects and fragments of the interior, on whose surfaces heat lingers momentarily. Through this strategy, the project takes on the character of an indirect self-portrait: the body is absent from the frame, yet revealed through the thermal traces of its recent presence. The method focuses on recording transitional states — between movement and stillness, sleep and wakefulness, interior and exterior. Heat here functions as a form of unstable memory: a residue of experience that has not yet become a memory and is gradually dissolving into space. In these images, space ceases to be a neutral background and becomes a participant in the process — it receives the trace of presence and simultaneously erases it. The project explores the vulnerability of human presence and the ways in which the body subtly inscribes itself into the material environment, leaving behind brief and gradually fading evidence of life.
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