Art Cologne: Booth B-316

Can spaces, gestures, or objects bear memory beyond the self?

THK Gallery's presentation at Art Cologne 2025, in collaboration with DOD Gallery, brings together Thomas Wachholz, Jeehye Song and Abdus Salaam, whose modes of practice test how form becomes a vessel of resonance-holding traces of movement, thought, and encounter beyond their moment of creation "Between gesture and material, memory lingers, not as a record of what was, but as an echo of what remains."

The presentation probes how matter carries the echoes of memory, experience, and time. Art, in its variable guises, is not merely something on which to gaze but a living site of perception. Drawing on Rosalind Krauss’s “expanded field” of 1979, the exhibition assumes meaning arises in and from relationships-between body and space, material and gesture, memory and the act of viewing.

Abdus Salaam works across sculpture, installation, and video to explore spiritual and ecological continuities. In Heartwood Symphonic: Earth and Light (2023) and Open to the light (2025), his pigmented resin alludes to geological and cosmic rhythms. Light is both medium and metaphor-suggestive of renewal, transcendence, and the being's cyclical nature. His work encourages a slower, more embodied form of attention, disclosing the vitality within stillness.

Together, these artists cultivate a shared language of sensitivity and transformation. Their practices converge to form a contemplative space that blurs distinctions between seeing and feeling, object and memory. At Booth B-316, THK and DOD Gallery invite audiences to consider: what gesture, shape, or movement lingers after the encounter? The exhibition unfolds as a living environment, a conversation between material and meaning, perception and presence, the self and what lies beyond it.