Brunette Coleman
Brunette Coleman

Image as Trace II

Zaid Arshad, Moyra Davey, Nora Kapfer, Zazou Roddam, W. Rossen

5 June–11 July 2026

‘Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.’ – Susan Sontag, ‘On Photography’

The artists in Image as Trace II favour experiential techniques that aren’t subjected to traditional modes of photography. With a shared affinity for exposing their means of production, the works reveal Sontag’s image as trace – charting the material process of photography itself, as well as the imprints of time.

Zaid Arshad
lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include: Who's Afraid of…, Hans Goodrich, Chicago (2026), Seesaw, Final Hot Desert, London (2026), Pass the Aux, Benny’s Video, New York (2025), Cessation, Parent Company, New York (2025), Ginen/Jinan, Turquoise, New York (2025), Out is not really out it's another quality of in, Galerie Katharina Blum, New York (2024).

Moyra Davey
(b. 1958, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include: Animal Stories, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2026), Four [чотири], greengrassi, London (2026), Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich (2026), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2025), La biennale de Québec, Manif d'art 11, Québec (2024), Trust Me, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY (2023), Exposed, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023), The Faithful, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery – Concordia University, Montreal (2022), My Saints, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2021), Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2020), Scotiabank Photography Award, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2019), Hell Notes, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2018), Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt (2017), Documenta 14, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and Neue Neue Galerie, Kassel (2017), Hemlock Forest, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2016), life without sheets of paper to be scribbled on is masterpiece, Camden Art Centre, London (2014).

Nora Kapfer
(b. 1984, Munich, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: Pretty Serious Stuff, Edouard Montassut, Paris (2024), Hoi Köln ! Part 3: Nightmare of Painting, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2024), Deux deviennent deux, Cento, Glasgow (2023), the loan takers, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2023), Dwellings, Rothschild & Co, Zurich (2022), Nora Kapfer, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg (2022), Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2022), Parts, The Wig, Berlin (2021), Recent Paintings, Édouard Montassut, Paris (2021), Come a Time, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2020), New Tar, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2017), Body Apart, Vesch, Vienna (2013), Kumulus, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna (2012).

Zazou Roddam
(b. 2000, London, UK) lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include: Preconditions, ESSAIS, Paris (2026), Sunset Strip, Further Down The Line, Liverpool (2026), GMT, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens (2025), Great Works, Galerie Oskar Weiss, Zürich (2025), Condo London 2025, Brunette Coleman, London (2025), Does Anyone Still Wear a Hat?, Hans Goodrich, Chicago (2024), pretend it’s a city, Chess Club, Hamburg (2024), Pop Inflection, Brunette Coleman, London (2023).

W. Rossen
(b. 1995, Zaandijk, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include: Impossible dreams, Wschód, Warsaw (2026), Flemishness, Velo Project, Milan (2025), 50Litre, Amsterdam (2025), Offspring 2024: Underbelly, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2024), Als Ich Can, Wschód, New York (2024), Ostend, Wschód, Warsaw (2023), Onder, Diez, Amsterdam (2022), Absolventenausstellung der Städelschule, Frankfurt (2022).