Traces

2026

Every body leaves an imprint. Every wound, gesture, ritual and silence settles somewhere—within us, within the land, within the stories we inherit.

Created in the aftermath of a residency in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, these works emerge from encounters with one of the world's oldest landscapes and from conversations with Indigenous understandings of land as a living archive. In the desert, memory is not only carried by people but preserved by earth itself. What disappears from history often remains embedded in soil, stone and salt.

Working across painting, textile, ceramics and drawing, Lot Winther explores the intimate relationship between the female body and the landscape. Rather than separating human and nature, the works propose them as reflections of one another. The body becomes terrain; the earth becomes flesh.

Textiles unravel like inherited knowledge. Drawings resemble fragments of memory recovered from an archaeological site. Clay carries the presence of both portrait and relic. The paintings suspend the figure between vulnerability and resilience, allowing emotion to unfold within expansive landscapes.

While the works draw from feminist thought and the long history of women's embodied knowledge, they resist fixed narratives. Instead, they ask how intuition, grief, care and memory might function as forms of knowledge that have often remained outside official histories.

Traces invites viewers to consider what the earth remembers when we forget, and what forms of wisdom remain available when we choose to listen.