New work

For her new solo exhibition, Emily Wolfe presents a body of work that navigates the unstable territory between intimacy and distance, memory and materiality. Across the exhibition, forms emerge and dissolve through layered surfaces, gestures, and fragments, inviting viewers into spaces that feel at once deeply personal and strangely collective.

Wolfe’s practice is driven by an attention to tension: between control and accident, permanence and erosion, visibility and concealment. Working intuitively, she builds compositions that resist fixed interpretation, allowing ambiguity to become an active and generative force. Marks accumulate like traces of lived experience — interrupted, revised, and continually in flux.

Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition creates a rhythm of encounter. Textures, repetitions, and subtle shifts in scale draw attention to the physical act of looking, asking viewers to slow down and inhabit moments of uncertainty. Wolfe treats material not simply as a medium, but as a record of time, pressure, and transformation.

At its core, the exhibition considers how we hold emotion within objects, spaces, and bodies. The works hover between abstraction and recognition, revealing fleeting impressions that feel both fragile and insistent. In doing so, Wolfe opens a space where vulnerability is neither spectacle nor confession, but a quiet condition of being.

Coinciding with the exhibition is Wolfe’s inclusion in Time Lag, a group exhibition at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan, on view from 19 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. Together, these presentations extend the artist’s ongoing exploration of perception, embodiment, and the poetics of process across distinct geographic and institutional contexts. In doing so, they further establish her engagement with material sensitivity, spatial tension, and the instability of memory.