Mary-Joan O’ Sullivan’s work explores the relationship between absence and the body. Using photography as her medium, O’ Sullivan tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Her photographs are based on objects leaving traces on the human form which open a unique poetic vein. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice.