Ephemeral Traces: Time, Memory, Perception is a group exhibition featuring works by Yifan Jiang, Cody Trepte and Johannes Wohnseifer.  Their shared exploration of ambiguity, memory, and the interplay between the tangible and elusive creates striking conceptual and visual relationships. 

New York-based Yifan Jiang constructs psychological landscapes that mirror dreamlike structures, weaving personal experiences with philosophical inquiries into cultural memory and language, proposing new ways of seeing the world. In the painting Nap, Jiang creates a dreamlike seascape of a marching band traversing undulating waves as a tiny figure sleeps on a duck pedal boat. Emerging from the fluffy clouds, a cat sleeps peacefully in Travel Pillow. In contrast, Drive captures the dynamic sensation of speeding in a Lamborghini, rendered in an energetic, futuristic style.

Drawing from philosophy, physics, and astronomy, Texas born, Los Angeles-based Cody Trepte explores the contradiction between chance, and time as fixed or predetermined.  For instance, From Both Moments of Another features an algorithmically altered found image of a stone ruin, silkscreened with ink which shifts from black to magenta based on the viewer’s angle, lighting, and time of day, embodying the unfixed and conditional nature of perception and time. Trepte’s panel works, Again And and Almost Always explore contradictions between random and fixed positions.