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Architecture of Absence dwells in the negative spaces between apartment blocks – the glimpses of sky, distant sea and fractured horizons that remain after built environments have risen around us. The artist’s own view from her home, obscured and framed by buildings, mirrors the dwindling of open landscapes that have increasingly become a broader condition of urban living. The title also draws from an architectural design philosophy where built forms strive to disappear into their surroundings, so as to reduce visual interference in an over-constructed world.
Architecture of Absence (diptych), 2025, acrylic and resin on wood, H130 x 52cm (left), H120 x 75cm (right)
Through layers of colour-shifting pigments, the painting changes subtly depending on where the viewer stands or how light touches the surface. Hues shift, forms soften or sharpen, and what is seen or unseen is in flux.
Architecture of Absence reflects a yearning to reclaim the horizon, and explores how perspective allows one to navigate a city of shrinking views. It portrays a cityscape not through its presence, but through its absence – what lies between the building structures or beyond the walls hold just as much meaning.
