This project, based on archival photographs, aims to visualize the processes of forgetting inherent in our memory. Memory is variable: by its nature, it has an ability to manipulate facts and memories, suppress negative information from the sphere of conscious, and create false memories on the basis of stories, visual materials and the synthesis of the real, past experience combined with fabrication.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin in the conversation with Eyal Weizman point out:
“There is potential power lying dormant in every photo. Once a photograph has been used in a particular way and returned to the archive, it has the potential to be read again; its potential will always be in excess of its particular history that produced it”.
That is why in Fake Recollection, the photographs are used “without context.” These are photographs from family albums that are torn from history and can be interpreted by the viewer depending on their experience. Through archival photographs, I want to depict the processes of forgetting and recollecting and to focus on the diversity of ways in which visual images can be read.
Shown at Mala Gallery of Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
