59 x 47 1/4 in
‘Apopheniac’ is an immersive work incorporating photography, film, sound and installations, it explores the innacuracies of human memory.
Neuroscience tells us that memories aren’t just written once, but rather, they are reconsolidated each time we remember them. As we tell ourselves our own story, and recall past moments, we create critical moments, and opportunities for manipulation, perhaps even erasure.
Here, the raw material is comprised of images taken almost twenty yeas ago, found in abandoned boxes of negatives. The photographs were reinterpreted, by physically melting them. The altered and disappearing patterns in the photographic emulsion, blended moments together, re-scripted time and allowed, through the flow of chemistry, for patterns to emerge where none might have ever existed.
In an often desperate need to ascribe meaning and form a linear timeline of our lives, our narrat- ing selves fuse together seemingly disjoined moments. This need for meaning often blurs the lines between reality and fiction. From the perspective of logic these are inaccuracies, human errors, glitches. Yet, they are a necessary shortcut to navigate both our outer and inner worlds, our subjec- tive realities, our traumas.
Apopheniac [not a word] > From: Apophenia ap·o·phe·nia | \ ˌa-pə-ˌfē-nē-ə \ The tendency to per- ceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)
Apopheniac is an ongoing series of immersive multi screen video and sound installations as well as a series of photographs.
