Gina Soden is a contemporary artist & photographer, whose work documents a reverie of architectural decay. Using the medium of the camera, Soden chart’s the slow & entropic passage of time, favouring a lyrical composition that breathes life back into the haunted spaces that time forgot. ’ Grand Piano’ depicts the staircase of a large, abandoned house, the curve of its wrought-iron raining creating a beautiful compositional centrepiece. Once-decadent features have long since been ravished by time: a flagstone floor caked with dirt, stained glass windows admitting light through wreaths of cobwebs, & wooden wall panelling, filthy with merciless age. At the foot of the stairs crouches a piano, half hidden in the shadows, its ivory keys untouched beneath a thick layer of dust, silencing memories of melody. Soden breathes life into inanimate objects but, more than that, she breathes life into the very space, igniting it with the ghostly trace of now-absent figures. Profoundly beautiful, Soden’s haunting print speaks to our very human fascination with time, its passing, & all things ephemeral.