Folded Memories:

Contemplating the idea of shelter as a mental space - a notion that has been resonating with me during these challenging times - a place where we can feel safe and show ourselves vulnerable at the same time, it made me think of long lost family members. I took out my father handkerchiefs that I’ve been saving for over ten years since he’s been gone and I started weaving text on it. Handkerchief as an outdated, almost forgotten, often overly used artefact is a nice metaphor in itself, burdening it with clumsy, awkwardly weaved text reflecting on relations and relationships, time and fragility of memory, it brings out poesis of the objects a little more elaborately.

 

Relations of reciprocity is an audio-visual installation reflecting on variable feministic realities of several generations of women in my family. The installation complements a collection of sixteen portrait images realized incorporating printed and drawing images - digital prints layered with dense drawing interventions with edited audio material based on fragments of conversations discussing different life experiences, restraints or challenges, reviewing personal positions as unstable categories, formed through reciprocities of mutual relationships. The work reassess the traditional form of a portrait, questioning the notion of identity as stable and fixed category, presenting it as vague, multidimensional and ever incomplete image.