Miya Hannan: Resonance

This exhibition presents a series of soot drawings and sculptures that explore the presence of human life embedded within the landscape. Using soot—a fluid, fragile residue of combustion—the work evokes traces of bodies and histories that have disappeared yet continue to linger. Sanded chairs, with portions of their structure removed and reduced to skeletal forms, represent the erosion and absence of physical presence. The instability of these materials reflects the transformation of human existence, as physical forms shift into memories and stories carried by others. Together, the works create an environment that invites slow looking and quiet reflection. Although the work is inspired by particular historical and personal events, the exhibition avoids direct narrative and instead emphasizes resonance and ambiguity. It brings together opposing conditions—presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, silence and sound—to reflect the ways the body and memory operate. Through material transformation and spatial composition, the work considers how human histories persist within the natural world and continue to shape it.