In my artistic practice, I delve into the intricate layers of personal history, loss, and love. Central to the work is the frame of the archive, a structured repository of knowledge and history. I am fascinated by the constructions that underpin archival systems, their selection processes, meticulous categorization, and ordering of materials that seek to impose coherence and meaning upon the chaos of lived experience.
Within this systematic logic lies a tension born from the collision of personal narrative against the ordering imperative of the archive.
My work co-opts the structures of the archive to present a personal collection of objects, kept from past romantic relationships and encounters, alongside an accompanying inventory, that attempts to preserve tangible reminders of the past. Stories of intimacy, loss, negotiation, and love mediated through a logical system of organization. Ordered by month and day, the collection rejects distinctions of year and embodies a cyclical experience of time and memory.
Each entry— letter, wrapper, flower, gesture— its presence and absence, becomes a vessel for storytelling, a fragment of a larger narrative that unfolds through the juxtaposition of the intimate and the systematic. Viewers are invited to interact with the collection and navigateits terrain of personal and collective history, to revel in its ambiguity and complexity.
My work co-opts the structures of the archive to present a personal collection of objects, kept from past romantic relationships and encounters, alongside an accompanying inventory, that attempts to preserve tangible reminders of the past. Stories of intimacy, loss, negotiation, and love mediated through a logical system of organization. Ordered by month and day, the collection rejects distinctions of year and embodies a cyclical experience of time and memory.
Each entry— letter, wrapper, flower, gesture— its presence and absence, becomes a vessel for storytelling, a fragment of a larger narrative that unfolds through the juxtaposition of the intimate and the systematic. Viewers are invited to interact with the collection and navigateits terrain of personal and collective history, to revel in its ambiguity and complexity.