Gloom of Mnemosyne
Photography and Objects, 2019
In Greek mythology, the water of the underworld river Mnemosyne, when drunk, brought about the remembrance of the already forgotten. Through digitalization, the endless stream of images stored in the cloud fills these gaps. Virtual memories complement the imperfection of our human memory and let us forget fewer and fewer events from our own past.
The project “Gloom of Mnemosyne” attempts to reappropriate this technological form of memory. Raw data has different qualities than the blurriness of memory, which is fluctuating and often blurry. The works from the series Gloom of Mnemosyne explore the partial incomprehensibility of memories. Images from the artist’s own past, stored on computer and hard disk, serve as starting material. In a digital retrospect, these images are captured directly from the screen, whereby fingerprints and dust on the screen are also part of the image word, as well as technical artifacts. The works become fragments of a memory, superimposed on the traces of time and alienated by technological interventions - and sometimes drift back into the darkness of oblivion.
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