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PASSING BY THE TREE, THE SKIN OF MEMORY 2012

Exhibited at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Alliance Française, Melbourne
Orange Regional Gallery
Newcastle University Gallery

selected images
All works are gouache painting, size 18 x 18 cm

This body of work is about my aunt who suffers from Dementia. She remembers very little of the past and to visit her is like entering another world. I wanted to remember our time together. When I see her or think of her I attach images which, to use Proust’s expression, “will break the spell”.

My aunt doesn’t speak French anymore and from the new language she has created, I developed a set of poems based on our surrealistic conversation. They translate my emotion into written sounds and rhythms.

The drawings of geometrical shapes are a representation of the space we live in but with illusions and distortions translating the world my Aunt lives in.

I also wanted to remember the everyday objects that were part of her life: rubbings on paper such as the armchair she used to sit on and other pieces of furniture; a tactile and intimate photography of her objects.

I constructed fragile paper vessels made from cotton fibers, it dries like the skin: it wrinkles and they carry balls of un-knitted wool, holding its own memory and the passing of time.

They are remnants of a past life and the memories of things past. As Proust wrote, they become my trees, awaking, recollecting the account of our days together. 

Photography by John Lee and Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

PASSING BY THE TREE, THE SKIN OF MEMORY 2012

Exhibited at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Alliance Française, Melbourne
Orange Regional Gallery
Newcastle University Gallery

selected images
All works are gouache painting, size 18 x 18 cm

This body of work is about my aunt who suffers from Dementia. She remembers very little of the past and to visit her is like entering another world. I wanted to remember our time together. When I see her or think of her I attach images which, to use Proust’s expression, “will break the spell”.

My aunt doesn’t speak French anymore and from the new language she has created, I developed a set of poems based on our surrealistic conversation. They translate my emotion into written sounds and rhythms.

The drawings of geometrical shapes are a representation of the space we live in but with illusions and distortions translating the world my Aunt lives in.

I also wanted to remember the everyday objects that were part of her life: rubbings on paper such as the armchair she used to sit on and other pieces of furniture; a tactile and intimate photography of her objects.

I constructed fragile paper vessels made from cotton fibers, it dries like the skin: it wrinkles and they carry balls of un-knitted wool, holding its own memory and the passing of time.

They are remnants of a past life and the memories of things past. As Proust wrote, they become my trees, awaking, recollecting the account of our days together. 

Photography by John Lee and Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

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 Installation at the Alliance Francaise Melbourne, Victoria

Installation at the Alliance Francaise Melbourne, Victoria

 Installation, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery. 4 hand made paper vessels with unknitted jumpers.

Installation, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery. 4 hand made paper vessels with unknitted jumpers.

 Telescope, Installation at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW

Telescope, Installation at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW

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