In collaboration with Office Impart, Studio Hanniball presents tides and traces with Henri Haake and Seungjun Lee. Two artistic positions meet, each approaching the fleeting nature of memories and moments from different perspectives - Haake as the gallery’s position through Office Impart, Lee as an independent curatorial invitation by Studio Hanniball. The exhibition is dedicated to the tension between the ephemeral and the enduring. It is about those fleeting scenes that imprint themselves on our memory - sometimes sharply defined, sometimes only as fragments. Memories that shift over time, overlap, and continually reassemble.

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Henri Haake approaches these inner images with narrative ease. His works recall mental snapshots. What may seem casual - an everyday moment such as children playing at a fountain - acquires a poetic quality, as if viewed through an inner lens that brings fleeting impressions into sharper focus. How do perspectives on our surroundings change? Our gaze at an oak leaf in a puddle, our view of the Earth from a probe in space, or life itself? An excess of information leads to overlap, perhaps to memory overload, and ultimately, to dissolution. Haake explores these processes in a non-judgmental manner: through dilution and blurring, through zooming into the essence of form or zooming into nothingness.

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Like the fountain scene, the first images on the canvas evolve. Figures appear, are painted over in layers, and yet persist. A visual memory emerges in which nothing is ever completely erased, but everything remains interwoven, sometimes more, sometimes less visible. Figurative elements move toward dissolution; construction and destruction merge. Alongside classic oil on canvas, Haake combines various techniques such as medium transfer, pigmentless oil paste layers and sand. The triptych - a recurring form in his work - plays with sequential storytelling, ranging from a mother with child by Hans Memling and origins to a danse macabre and transience (Chorus, 2025). Iconographic motifs, such as Virgin with Child, are recontextualized, as if retold through the lens of the present.