The Modesty of Retention

Program, P.2238
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Identifier
P.2238
Category
Visual Arts
Date
April 26 – May 4, 2013
Description
“I have been interested in the recollection of memory for some time now, having taken notice of the peculiar experience of reoccurring dreams, repressed memory, and the thin line between imagination and reality. Working mostly from personal experience, I have attempted
to recapture the memories and dreams that were created in my childhood. Using metaphorical imagery, my goal is to create a work that both represents and communicates the feeling and emotion and gravity of an ephemeral moment. Through the use of installation, the metaphorical reference to memory is made through materials. Used bedsheets act as a vehicle for nostalgia, being a highly personal material that has been used, touched, washed over and over, allowing the influence and energy of
the events stored within it to create a tactile ground to work with. Colour also communicates the concept, the staining creating dreamy landscapes within the fabric. With a direct reference to the passage of time, the installation not only records that passage but illustrates how memories act like a stain, blurring the original memory, distorting and changing it over time.”
- Shandrie Woodward