Visual exercise “Memory and its interpretation”
“My country doesn’t exist anymore except for in my memory. I am a citizen of my memory which lacks laws, passports and inhabitants and only houses distortions”
– Luis Camnitzer
Years after her grandmother’s death, a female subject traces the feeling of loss by revisiting archives and personal memories. While looking for a memory of her grandmother that can last, that can be rescued from her own memories the subject is confronted with the impossibility of memory and the paradox of absence, but also with the place of images as sites of mourning to ensure continuity. What kind of aesthetic could emerge from images that gravitate between their urge to evoke sensations and their need to inscribe themselves in a legible register?
In terms of visual treatment, I am departing from Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business (1996) as the main referent. A collage of images in which the story of of Berliner’s family history is (re)constructed through archives: birth certificates, letters, found footage, home video and photographs.
Nevertheless I am also interested in working with images that have no documentary value and that due to their blurriness evoke a phantasmagoric aesthetic. These images communicate how despite all efforts to retrieve/recover memory, there are still many elements out focus or comprehension.
Visual exercise “Mariana”
Every morning all the students from fourth grade go to the chapel to receive Jesus. While the rest of the girls wait for the teacher’s instructions and her sermon, Mariana gets lost in the overwhelming presence of the building, wondering about what the rest of the girls say about ghosts haunting the playground as well as the religious statues that seem to gaze at her and everyone around.
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