Ahmad Tallaa’s The Living Archive considers the human face as a record of lived experience, exploring how time, memory, and emotion become embedded in the marks we carry. The exhibition looks at the face not simply as a representation of identity, but as a surface that continuously registers the passage of life and the experiences that shape us.
The exhibition brings together artist books, large-scale paintings, recycled wood panels, and sculptures, developed through a process of layering and transformation. Across the exhibition, Tallaa reflects on the ways people are shaped by what they encounter and carry with them. His works consider memory as something that remains active rather than fixed, where traces of the past continue to influence the present. The Living Archive brings you face to face with lines that hold the quiet memory of a life lived.
