18 Nov POSTCARDS FROM IMAGINARY PLACES, 2006

Postcards from Imaginary Places, video still

Postcards from Imaginary Places, video still

Postcards from Imaginary Places, video still

Single channel video projection with sound, 3’11”

Video work Postcards from Imaginary Places is dealing with the fragility of the memory and the struggle to remember. Images showing sudden memory flashes represent seen but not quite familiar places, events one feels are experienced but can not grasp their totality, can not place them in any consecutive narrative. The backdrop for that struggle with one’s memory in the work is the water – waste and indifferent sea that maybe remembers everything.

(Video work Postcards from Imaginary Places was created from the material found in the private collection of the home movies filmed in the 1970s by the 8mm camera. The video is one of the works from the series Madeleine, photography and video works dealing with personal and collective memory.)