Heidi Weiss
Playback: Recent Works

Playback brings together a series of paintings that explore the circulation and repetition of memory. Drawing from both personal recollection and borrowed television imagery, the work asks what happens when the familiar reappears—when an image loops long enough to blur the line between lived experience and what is seen. Calling to the constructed space of nostalgia and its relationship to grief, these paintings serve as a record of how perception shifts and obscures over time.

This recursive form of memory—shaped by television’s cadence—inspires a visual rhythm where each moment builds toward its own conclusion so another can begin. Paint moves in layers, dissecting and holding what might otherwise slip away. Personal imagery and appropriated stills intertwine to capture the pause before something happens, a shared rhythm of anticipation linking private and collective experience. The paintings waver between recognition and uncertainty, developing a visual language that continually rewrites itself. These amalgamated scenes suggest a quiet sense of connection, as if we’re all watching the same thing, even when we’re alone.