For her first solo exhibition at Paulina Caspari, Hanna Rochereau presents 1st Floor, an installation that takes the logic of retail display as both subject and formal proposition. The point of departure is the department store floor: a space organised around the choreography of desire, where objects are elevated on podiums, arranged on tiered shelves, and lit to produce a particular atmosphere of value and longing. Rather than recreating these structures directly, Rochereau works from their absence. The exhibition stages what remains after the furniture and display-surfaces have been removed, the carpet marked by the outlines of display stands that are no longer there, their saturated silhouettes preserved against the surrounding fade. The work embodies the illusion of what was as well as the fantasy of what could be.