Net art project produced in cooperation with Internet Moon Gallery. Based on the mnemonic technique of the same name, Memory Palace explores interrelations between memory and spatial dimensions. Working with the materiality of conceptual associations and digital environments, this piece presents a nonlinear narration through a system of interrelated digital/conceptual objects. Due to the idiosyncratic nature of memory, each brings their own personal and cultural associations and the artwork fluctuates between a constructed representation of the artist’s own thought process and a structure onto which the viewer imposes their own meaning.
2017
Exhibition text:
construct a palace for the mind
a gallery for thought to roam
to shape and mold ideas as you would wet clay
localising them in physical, mental, digital domains
place each thought in an object in space for safekeeping
use your objects to recall the taste of madeleines
as amphorae to store the nectar of remembrance
the goldfish doesn’t get much credit
for its ability to recall the past
but has the luxury of seeing the world always anew
memory dribbles through our fingers
like liquid silver and gelatine
freezing for moments in a bath of salts and acids
latent imagery becomes fixed to the page
laminating liminal states in a film-like veneer
summoning Cicero
embed the past present in the future
preempting memory’s tendency to decay
wind elastic through the bends of a labyrinth
and situate each memory in its proper location
place one in each alcove
nested within a niche or on a marble ledge
and visit them from time to time