I explore my neighbourhood’s memories through a collection of appropriated objects I found on sidewalks and street corners.
Discarded by their owners, objects are left until a bystander takes them to their new life. Through this transfer of material goods, I explore tacit discourse and exchange of memories between people who never met.
I use objects as a time-ready-made commodities to create installations which explore the possibility of recreating memories from these dilapidated witnesses of history. In parallel to recontextualizing the objects, I examine the process of deconstructing myself. The relationship between the objects, their representation as installation-memory-images and myself becomes reciprocated feature.
The unpredictable and varied content of this re-enacted family photo album, made of discarded objects, is a metaphor of visual remembrance, whereby remembering only the selected contents from the past, we create the frames of interpretation and meanings for the present.
The result is a combination of what previous owners, and I have built through a sequence of time-space disentanglements – unique ambivalence between memory and history, fiction and reality.
