Gritli Faulhaber & Augusta Lardy Micheli: Memory Shelf

11 July—6 September 2025

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the duo exhibition, “Memory Shelf”, by Gritli Faulhaber and Augusta Lardy Micheli. Join us for the opening on Thursday, July 10, from 6 pm.

Lardy and Faulhaber, appears. Not quite together, not exactly apart in the exhibition space and present their works just close enough for their questions to echo each other’s questions, without ever trying to align. These seemingly different positions, both paint from the periphery. From the edges of what we usually try to name. They don’t offer statements. They suggest, hesitate, circle around what resists clarity.

In her collages series, Gritli Faulhaber develops a pictorial language that seems to hold its breath. At first glance, these are quiet paintings, even though they are large scale, they seem to hide and appear eclectic. But the quiet is full. Surfaces pause mid-sentence. Bodies are absent, or nearly so. And yet, the room isn’t empty, everything speaks: the weight of fabric, the angle of a door left ajar, shadows that persist without anchoring.

Augusta Lardy also moves in this space between presence and retreat, but from a different angle. Her paintings begin long before the brush touches canvas. The process unfolds slowly, internally, but when it comes, the act is fast. A sudden gesture backed by days of silence. As if something had finally gathered enough pressure to surface.