
Hannah Theiss pieces together fragments of memory in her exhibition, Qualia, weaving a tapestry of haunting emptiness and faint familiarity. Memory is far more imperfect than we often acknowledge—especially for those who have experienced ongoing trauma, where recollections remain compromised, unhealed, and unprocessed. Through her use of non-traditional materials, Theiss explores the void that memory presents in the search for answers. Her work teeters on the edge of eerie non-recognition, where transparency and absence evoke the instability of recall. Amidst these echoes, washes of color emerge—offering a release of long-suppressed emotion and forming a fragile, fleeting connection to the past self