This is the place is a multimedia installation that explores different ways and methods of recollecting the past, while questioning the intrinsic ambiguity and unreliability of the photographic medium.
The work unfolds in the space through a fragmented installation of visual clues, creating a broken and layered narrative that constantly shifts between preserving and destroying, both physically and metaphorically.
The film follows the journey of a statue, belonging to the artist’s father, being repaired. This is placed in conversation with photographs from her family albums.
Throughout the film, the photographs are soaked in a household chemical, igniting a process of disappearance. The only resolution in the film is on the surface, of both the statue and images; the body of the lion and the surface of the prints become the places in which memory occurs again, or where the act of looking into the past manifests physically.
The work unfolds in the space through a fragmented installation of visual clues, creating a broken and layered narrative that constantly shifts between preserving and destroying, both physically and metaphorically.
The film follows the journey of a statue, belonging to the artist’s father, being repaired. This is placed in conversation with photographs from her family albums.
Throughout the film, the photographs are soaked in a household chemical, igniting a process of disappearance. The only resolution in the film is on the surface, of both the statue and images; the body of the lion and the surface of the prints become the places in which memory occurs again, or where the act of looking into the past manifests physically.
