170 x 320 cm.
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Roots suggest permanence: a place, a family, a culture, a history. Drifting suggests movement, the possibility of being carried elsewhere.
Drifting Roots exists somewhere between the two.
We move through the world carrying fragments with us. A pattern remembered from childhood. The colors of a distant landscape. An inherited gesture. A material discovered elsewhere. A piece of wood shaped by the sea. Some things are deliberately collected; others settle quietly into memory, returning years later in another form.
Bringing together Zvia Green, Shayan Rose Ben Sira and Axelle Gosse, the exhibition traces how memory, movement and encounter become material.
In Zvia Green’s work, painting and weaving carry fragments of a multicultural heritage. Portuguese and Israeli references meet family memories, domestic rituals and familiar objects, creating surfaces where personal and cultural histories overlap.
Axelle Gosse’s rope and textile works hold the impressions of a life shaped by movement. Colors, textures and sensations gathered across landscapes reappear not as records of particular places, but as rhythms, intuitive geographies woven from memory.
Shayan Rose Ben Sira brings ceramic, glass and wood into dialogue with ancient processes such as Japanese Naked Raku. Fire, chance and imperfection become part of the work itself, leaving traces that cannot be entirely controlled.
Thread and rope. Clay and glass. Paint and wood. Each material becomes a vessel for something that began elsewhere.
Here, heritage is not something preserved unchanged. It travels. It absorbs new landscapes, techniques and experiences. It is altered by distance and by time.
A thread can hold a memory.
A rope can retain the rhythm of a landscape.
Clay carries the trace of fire; wood, the passage of water.
To drift is not necessarily to become rootless. Perhaps roots are not only what binds us to where we began, but what we carry with us and what continues to transform as we move.
