Galerie 3AP opens its Düsseldorf space’s first exhibition of the year with Camie Klein’s solo show. Bodies in Residue explores how bodies inscribe themselves into architecture – not through mere presence, but through what remains. Doors and floors coated in soap absorb touch, grease, tattoos, and particles. These surfaces become soft thresholds where contact turns into memory, while simultaneously disturbing identity and order: soap, normally associated with cleansing, is here contaminated. It now functions as an architectural membrane, holding together cleansing and contamination, stabilization and dissolution.

Across flowing yet hardening surfaces, corporeality appears as an ongoing process: a residue that escapes complete capture. Here, residue refers to what within a system does not fully integrate – the remainder that resists absorption. In doing so, it makes the limits of that system visible. Body and space continuously shape one another in this surplus, leaving traces and echoes that persist even when the system cannot fully accommodate them.

Pathways and surfaces place viewers directly inside this system, unsettling their self-perception and questioning identity. The works ask how a body can be thought beyond fixed form: as trace, imprint, and absence that continues to act.