What moves, a solo exhibition at the Gateway Gallery

What moves is a multidisciplinary solo presentation of artist Joetta Maue combining drawing, photography, embroidery, and translucent cloth to meditate on the everyday sublime. Through images of dust, light, and domestic space, the work traces the liminal journey of sunlight—from the cosmos to kitchen tables, children’s rooms, and quiet corners—where the celestial and the intimate converge. Photographs suspended on transparent cloth overlap with hand-drawn and embroidered light forms, dissolving boundaries between image and environment, past and present. Using time-intensive, historically rooted techniques such as seed stitch embroidery, the work recreates ephemeral light and collapses time, reminding viewers that we share the same light as those who came before us. Unframed and intentionally vulnerable, the installations blur distinctions between finished and unfinished, abstraction and representation, inviting viewers into a slowed, embodied experience of presence, impermanence, and gratitude.

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