{"id":46172,"date":"2026-08-18T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/event\/ausstellung-architecture-of-traces-von-piloya-irene\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:34:58","slug":"ausstellung-architecture-of-traces-von-piloya-irene","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/event\/ausstellung-architecture-of-traces-von-piloya-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u00bbArchitecture of Traces\u00ab by Piloya Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[634],"class_list":["post-46172","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","category-exhibition"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"In <em>Architecture of Traces<\/em>, <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Piloya Irene<\/span> explores memory as a living, evolving process. Grounded in the concept of neuroplasticity \u2013 the brain\u2019s ability to reorganize itself through experience \u2013 she approaches memory not as a static archive, but as a dynamic system that is continuously reshaped through repetition, interaction, and environmental influence.\r\n\r\nDeveloped in dialogue with the history of Schloss Solitude and its gardens, Piloya investigates how landscapes, architecture, and trees bear traces of labour, resilience, power, and regeneration. Drawing on Jane Bennett\u2019s concept of thing-power in <em>Vibrant Matter<\/em>, she considers plants, trees, and found materials as active material agents rather than passive carriers of history. The Schloss garden emerges as a living archive where historical, ecological, and social processes intersect, revealing how beauty and nature are inseparable from memory, ideology, and transformation.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition presents five new works, including sculptural installations of plant materials from the Schloss garden preserved in resin, drawings of tree bark textures on handmade paper, cyanotype prints combining archival and contemporary imagery, and textile works featuring photographs of the historic trees surrounding Schloss Solitude. Through these material processes, the works explore growth, preservation, decay, and transformation, asking what architecture and landscapes remember \u2013 and how these memories continue to evolve through time, material, and human intervention."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Piloya Irene<\/span> is an artist and art educator working between Gulu and Kumasi, Ghana. Through sculpture, painting, and film, her practice explores personal and collective experiences of displacement, memory, and history in relation to place, identity, and belonging.\r\n\r\nFind the detailed biography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/person\/irene-piloya\/\">here<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Opening:<\/span> September 9, 2026, 6 pm\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">On view: <\/span>September 10 to 24, 2026\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Opening hours:<\/span> Mon\u2013Fr,i 10 am\u201312 pm &amp; 2\u20134 pm"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/46172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}