Heidi Rødstøl has for many years worked with spatial installations where the traces of the selected elemnts are left in the vacuum of an abandoned room. She inflicts shadows of objects, furniture or architectural details on the wall, floor or the ceiling of the room. By that the objects are gaining a presence in space and time without beeing there.
They become traces.

The Silhouettes become "proof" of the absence of the objects, while creating an interior "memory". The shadows are reinforcing the experience of the physical space and bringing forward a duality , an illusion: the presence of the absent.

Rødstøls installations are site-specific and she chooses to apply either new and unknown elements or elemnts from the history and character of the room. At ROM she creates the illusion through an exploratory dialogue with the architecture of the space. She works with height differences in the gallery.

The exhibition TRACE includes also photo works wich focus on the main topic of presence - absence: the two terms that depend on eachother to make sense at all

Trace is one of the most important concepts in Derrida's deconstruction .

Heidi Rødstøl is an artist with degree from the Art Academy in Bergen. She lives and works in Åfarnes, Rauma . In addition to her own artistic practice Rødstøl carries out a number of art projects in public space