Echoes of Presence - Liselotte Engstam

Originally published on Novisali.com, November 2025

Echoes of Presence is a poetic exploration by Novisali (Liselotte Engstam) of how light, shadow, and memory shape the quiet outlines of human experience. The exhibition weaves together photography and digitally transformed watercolor art, creating layered silhouettes that feel both fleeting and deeply familiar.

Key insights from the exhibition include:
• The silhouette as memory — Each work captures presence not through detail, but through contour and suggestion, echoing something once felt or yet to come.
• A dialogue between mediums — Photography and digital art merge into composite images where the moment meets imagination.
• Time as a quiet storyteller — Shadows, gestures and subtle traces invite viewers into reflection on what lingers beyond the visible.
• Art as a space of stillness — The pieces encourage slowing down, sensing the in-between, and meeting the silent shapes of presence within ourselves.

The invitation is clear:
Pause, look closer, and let the silhouettes speak.

About Liselotte Engstam, Digoshen & Novisali

Liselotte Engstam is an explorer of perspectives, an adventurer of ideas, a pathfinder of meaning, and a guide of timeless transitions. She bridges the worlds of board leadership and art, helping organizations and individuals navigate disruption while nurturing creativity and reflection.

As founder of Digoshen, she works with boards and leaders to expand future insights and reduce digital and sustainability blindspots. Through research, networks, and executive programs, Digoshen supports responsible value creation in the digital and sustainable age, contributing thought leadership via books, articles, events, Digoshen Exploring Leaders podcast, and blogs.

She also serves as Chair of the Boards Impact Forum in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Climate Governance. The Forum convenes board members, thought leaders, and experts in dialogues, webinars, and collaborative events, accelerating action on climate, AI, and sustainability.

Through her artistic practice as Novisali, Liselotte explores creativity and meaning. Her watercolors, digitally reimagined, invite reflection and renewal, offering perspectives that connect head, heart, and hand, and complementing her work with leaders and boards.

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