Photographic Series
From that warm and well known place, where my family wove its roots, a new material cycle detaches.
This work narrates the story of this transformation.
¨ from Döttingen reflects on the fragmented, recyclable, and ephemeral nature of memory.
This project began in 2019 when I discovered by chance that my grandparents’ house was going to be demolished.
Witnessing and documenting this delicate deconstruction and recycling of matter was like traversing the intricate filigree of my childhood memories. This long and painful process made me question our different ways of confronting the fear of forgetting. How do we try to preserve our memories? What are our strategies for not forgetting? How do we reconstruct or keep our memories alive?
This work explores the process of memory reconstruction from different perspectives: through audiovisual recordings, oral narratives, artificial intelligence tools for memory and character reconstruction, recovered objects, music, and food.
All these fragments establish a dialogue with each other within the exhibition space; they represent fragments of a memory in the process of being recoded. The work invites the viewer to participate in the temporal language of memory, including them as yet another fragment, another actor in this process of remembering/recoding.
video excerpts