LETHE
Digital montages from photos, 2019
The works from the series LETHE are constructed objects of photographic memories. Digitally documented pieces of porcelain figurines, glass and other objects were rebuilt and shaped into new pieces with a life and history of their own. Taken from the past and transferred into a timeless dimension, they become relique-like artifacts of a past that bears in them the processes of manipulation and digital sculpting. They then stand for a fictious memory that may have not existed in this exact form.
“Digitally documented parts of porcelain figurines, glass and other objects were transformed into new objects based on processes of manipulation and digital sculpture. They stand for a fictitious or dissociated memory and thus for the forgetting of the original form. In both series, Michaela Putz captures the paradox of our memory: the artist uses almost painterly abstraction as a space cleared of clues in which memories can be revived and, in return, already implies the dissolution of the actual emotional relevance through the concrete, but nevertheless artificial reconstruction.“ - Esther Mlenek
