COLLECTION OF MEMORIES

Collection of Memories is imagined as an engaging urban installation. It uses lenticular prints (lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles), drawings and writings made in different materials like paper, see-through plastics, mirrors… put up at eye level using metal holders.

They are arranged either in a straight line of 20 or in a loose rectangle of 5 by 4 in a row (number of pieces to be defined at a later time). Both sides of the pieces will be used but showing a different narrative from their other side. The audience is imagined to interact with the works and to discover their inter lapping stories and depictions or contradictions depending on which side of the work they are viewing. The idea comes from the theme of the festival Future III which examines a point in time when our near future already happened. This sort of future that retrospectively judges could create said judgment on changes and developments on an individual and personal level or on a global, collective one. Additionally, it could comment on past future acts through COLLECTION OF MEMORIES the lens of either a position of authority or a position of inferiority. Thus, through this reinterpretation, we reshape the retrospect of the far future will have. This notion of personal or collective memory to be recalled and retold in a different way or to be reinterpreted from a position of power over it could have deep implications creating false memories or selective omission, a type of memory bias. False memories are functional and adaptive, but they are closely related to familiar scenes and could exist as a survival tool and future problem-solving. Whether, true, false, or in between I will allow the audience to participate with their own reading of the pieces and their own story making of them, thus altering time and time again the meaning and future of the work.