23/06/2026
Between completion and encounter, works enter an extended, largely unacknowledged phase. They move through systems of storage, logistics, and valuation, remaining outside visibility for prolonged periods of time.
A large body of Roth’s paintings has existed in precisely this condition for years, stacked, wrapped, and effectively invisible. With the artist’s passing, this state has only intensified. Despite their presence, the works remain suspended.
This exhibition draws part of the work out of this suspension without fully resolving it. Instead, it transters the paintings into another kind of in-between space, a space of possibility between visibility and withdrawal, presence and absence. A condition in which the works are not fully released, but only momentarily encountered. Shifting. Reappearing. Never entirely fixed.
As Walter Benjamin suggested, the presence of a work is bound to its existence in time and space. When this presence is suspended, when a work is neither encountered nor in circulation, its status becomes unstable.
It continues to exist, but without confirmation. Waiting, in this sense, is not passive. It is exposure to time without guarantee of visibility, attention, or return.
Not every work is seen.
Most simply wait.
(excerpt from the curatorial text)
