Immemorium

 

 

With no clear timeline, these moments feel as foreign as they do familiar, existing somewhere between presence and absence. 

Emerging from the usually discarded portion of instant film, the images, are kept in a state of deliberate impermanence. They are, in a sense, not meant to be. Stored in the least archival manner possible, exposed to heat and humidity, the fragile emulsion evolves and distorts its own information over time.

The negatives are regularly revisited, temporarily fixed as digital snapshots and returned to their state of flux and decay. Some frames slowly transform, retaining information from the moment of capture, while others, become complete abstractions.

A disjointed experience of time emerges, free of the so-called “decisive moment”. Deconstructed photographs and memories, constantly evolving, echo Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the instability of meaning and the fluid nature of time, as if engaged in a dialogue between memory and transience.

 

Rooftop installation views, Bangkok Biennial 2018. Chinatown, Bangkok