Mar Kristoff's site-specific installation recontextualizes personal narratives from his own visual archive of the past to be retraced in the present. The word 'traced' itself is important because 'trace' is how the past can remain present or embodied in others when its meaning changes or is reinterpreted. The decaying facade of his childhood home is attempted to be re-presented, leading to a space in which traces and fragments of the past are felt as being present. The materials and sources for this installation were inherited by Kristoff from his mother and late father; including the blueprints of his home. The 'poetry of space' is at the heart of the work, referring to Gaston Bachelard's (1884-1962) idea that space is not just a physical location, but is filled with memories, emotions and personal meanings.

Kristoff's paintings utilize the blur effect derived from family photographs. This two-dimensional work begins with the result of digital processing before being projected onto canvas, presenting itself as akin to an echo. Reading or re-examining old archives not only evokes a kind of nostalgia, but also arouses a sense of poetics when the concrete and the abstract, their auras and traces, seem to be present together. In the context of this installation configuration, Kristoff embodies an 'action' that is not merely physical, but induces the spread of psychological values and contributions. The use of gesso with its tendency to develop hairline cracks on the blurred painting plane strengthens the echo of such an unreal 'action'.