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What stays when the moment has gone?

A body crosses a room. Light takes a little longer to leave. Mara Venn stretches the instant between seeing and remembering into an exhibition of colour, movement and uncertain edges.

Venn begins with a simple arrangement: a room, a moving body and a single source of light. Exposures last long enough for the figure to become a trace. The architecture remains exact; the person passing through it refuses to settle. Vermilion pools against blue, and the floor becomes a second, less reliable picture.

Across three sequences, the exhibition moves from recognisable gestures to near abstraction. Small contact studies sit alongside wall-sized images, allowing a change in scale to become a change in attention. The work asks how much of a person a photograph can hold—and what a picture gains when it gives up describing them.

The final room slows the sequence to a single image. Stay with it. The colours you carry out may be different from the ones you first saw.