What once was

mellom_rom

Monica A. Amundsen

This exhibition is a culmination of six weeks of work by the artist who in her most recent work has investigated the complexity of humans relationship to memories. We, humans, have an exceptional ability to recall long-gone but specific episodes of our lives, but in remembering, there is a close interaction between remembering, perceiving and imagining.

The exhibition consists of several works mixing glass and photography. The glass works as a metaphorical symbol relating to the complexity of memories. The physical appearance of glass is hard and tangible, but glass is also a very delicate and fragile material, which is easily manipulated or broken when force is applied. Much like memories as time passes. What was once a very real event in our lives can be broken or distorted by time, but somehow we can pull it back out – reconstruct it – and consider the result as real as when it actually happened.

Photographs where once understood as a way of capturing singular moments of time, a way of preserving explicit memories – the ultimate truth. But now in modern times, it’s recognised to have a multifaceted and slippery relationship to the truth and to the past.

By embracing this complexity of humans relationship to memories, glass and photography, the artist gives her input in the construction of one’s history and the perception of time.

The exhibition is a part of “mellom_rom” exhibitions, and it is open for a week.