TRACE - Exhibition Opening Weekend
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TRACE
- Photographs by Lely Constantinople, Martina Fornace, Claire Packer, Antonia Tricarico
28th of June - 18th of July in Neurotitan Gallery
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Opening reception at Neurotitan:
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 6 p.m.
with DJ Holly Hunted
10 p.m. Afterparty at Eschschloraque Rümschrümp
DJs Alec MacKaye & Jerry Busher (Washington, D.C.)
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Sunday, June 28, 2026, 4–9 PM
Meet the Artists: Make Noise, Leave Traces. - Artist Talk
with Lely Constantinople, Martina Fornace, Claire Packer & Antonia Tricarico
Moderator: Rebecca Lilliecrona
*Discussion in English (Talk starts: 6 PM)
DJ Mr. Cigarette Butt & Special Live Performance: SID THE DIG DIGGER
(Cyber psycho blues one man band based in Berlin)
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More info about TRACE:
TRACE is an exhibition about fleeting moments and the faces, places, and fragments that tell stories beyond what is immediately visible. At its core it explores human presence and our relationship to place: how we exist in spaces, how we leave remnants, and how our environments hold the imprint of our passage.
This exhibition creates a dialogue between people and the places they inhabit, or sometimes escape, through portraiture, landscapes, and mixed media. Four DC/MD based artists bring distinct perspectives to this exploration, united by shared themes of memory, presence, and traces left behind yet their approaches vary dramatically: some are raw and direct while others are layered, abstracted, or purposefully subdued. This contradiction reflects how memory and meaning shift depending on perspective and time.
TRACE also examines the connections between varied photographic processes - from traditional gelatin silver prints to experimental solarplates, from intimate cyanotypes to contemporary digital work. Each process carries its own relationship to time and permanence, mirroring how we differently experience and remember. Handmade books invite a close, personal experience, while larger prints command space and attention.This exhibition offers viewers space to slow down and look again, to consider the emotional textures of everyday life and to recognize how people and places hold stories that often go untold.
About the Artists:
Lely Constantinople is an American artist, archivist/photo editor, and educator from Washington, D.C. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for over thirty years, and her photographs are held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution as well as numerous private collections. She has edited/curated several books and traveling exhibitions and has been awarded numerous grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
(lelyconstantinople.com)
Martina Fornace is an Italian film photographer whose work primarily focuses on long-term projects exploring the duality of the passage of time and seasonal repetition. She works with a variety of cameras and formats, but the bulk of her work is done with medium format and half-frame cameras. Her work has been exhibited in both Italy and the USA.
(martinafornace.com)
Claire Packer is a Northern Irish-born artist and photographer, living near Washington, DC. She has studied Fine Arts & Photography in Ireland, her work captures the beauty in forgotten places, the unnoticed, the fragility of life in nature, the human body, as well as portraiture. Her work has been published in the Washington Post and in a collection of female photographers titled Girlgaze (Rizzoli). Claire has worked with numerous DC musicians, particularly the hardcore punk community.
(clairepacker.com)
Antonia Tricarico is an Italian photographer who has been taking photos since 1997. She has worked as a photo archivist for Lucian Perkins ( Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post) and collaborated with Tolotta Records, Dischord Records, and K*ll Rock Stars. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in numerous private collections, in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and various archives in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books on music and photography, and recently published her first novel in Italian.
(antoniatricarico.com)
TRACE
- Photographs by Lely Constantinople, Martina Fornace, Claire Packer, Antonia Tricarico
28th of June - 18th of July in Neurotitan Gallery
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Opening reception at Neurotitan:
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 6 p.m.
with DJ Holly Hunted
10 p.m. Afterparty at Eschschloraque Rümschrümp
DJs Alec MacKaye & Jerry Busher (Washington, D.C.)
-------------------------------------------
Sunday, June 28, 2026, 4–9 PM
Meet the Artists: Make Noise, Leave Traces. - Artist Talk
with Lely Constantinople, Martina Fornace, Claire Packer & Antonia Tricarico
Moderator: Rebecca Lilliecrona
*Discussion in English (Talk starts: 6 PM)
DJ Mr. Cigarette Butt & Special Live Performance: SID THE DIG DIGGER
(Cyber psycho blues one man band based in Berlin)
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More info about TRACE:
TRACE is an exhibition about fleeting moments and the faces, places, and fragments that tell stories beyond what is immediately visible. At its core it explores human presence and our relationship to place: how we exist in spaces, how we leave remnants, and how our environments hold the imprint of our passage.
This exhibition creates a dialogue between people and the places they inhabit, or sometimes escape, through portraiture, landscapes, and mixed media. Four DC/MD based artists bring distinct perspectives to this exploration, united by shared themes of memory, presence, and traces left behind yet their approaches vary dramatically: some are raw and direct while others are layered, abstracted, or purposefully subdued. This contradiction reflects how memory and meaning shift depending on perspective and time.
TRACE also examines the connections between varied photographic processes - from traditional gelatin silver prints to experimental solarplates, from intimate cyanotypes to contemporary digital work. Each process carries its own relationship to time and permanence, mirroring how we differently experience and remember. Handmade books invite a close, personal experience, while larger prints command space and attention.This exhibition offers viewers space to slow down and look again, to consider the emotional textures of everyday life and to recognize how people and places hold stories that often go untold.
About the Artists:
Lely Constantinople is an American artist, archivist/photo editor, and educator from Washington, D.C. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for over thirty years, and her photographs are held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution as well as numerous private collections. She has edited/curated several books and traveling exhibitions and has been awarded numerous grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
(lelyconstantinople.com)
Martina Fornace is an Italian film photographer whose work primarily focuses on long-term projects exploring the duality of the passage of time and seasonal repetition. She works with a variety of cameras and formats, but the bulk of her work is done with medium format and half-frame cameras. Her work has been exhibited in both Italy and the USA.
(martinafornace.com)
Claire Packer is a Northern Irish-born artist and photographer, living near Washington, DC. She has studied Fine Arts & Photography in Ireland, her work captures the beauty in forgotten places, the unnoticed, the fragility of life in nature, the human body, as well as portraiture. Her work has been published in the Washington Post and in a collection of female photographers titled Girlgaze (Rizzoli). Claire has worked with numerous DC musicians, particularly the hardcore punk community.
(clairepacker.com)
Antonia Tricarico is an Italian photographer who has been taking photos since 1997. She has worked as a photo archivist for Lucian Perkins ( Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post) and collaborated with Tolotta Records, Dischord Records, and K*ll Rock Stars. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in numerous private collections, in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and various archives in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books on music and photography, and recently published her first novel in Italian.
(antoniatricarico.com)
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Neurotitan, Rosenthaler Straße 39,Berlin, Germany
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