“...but so many good things happened to you!”
Why is it that we remember good memories less than bad ones? In my project I am looking for the answer to this through family portraits which I appear in or I have taken in the past, and which I have good memories of, but forgot them over time. Without looking at photos it’s like there are only pixels in the place of memories. However, I can clearly recall to this day that, for example, what nightmares I had for many years as a child after an unprocessed trauma. While I cut, fold, and weave these photos, not only manual but also mental work is going on. I realize more and more that there is no such thing as a pure, happy memory taken by itself. The longer I have a photograph in my hands and work with it, the more the future of the moment captured in the image shatters. Because I already know it’s past. The impressions of happy moments, which are pixelated in my memories, but clear when recalled, are destroyed again by negative memories.
These are doubly fragmented memories.
2022-2024, one of a kind artworks, own family archive photographs, scanned, printed on photo paper, handmanipulated in 3 dimension, different sizes: 30x40 - 60x40 cm, depth 2-7,5 cm
The realization of the series was supported by NKA (National Cultural Fund).
Installation view at Tér-Kép Gallery, Budapest, 2024
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