Review - If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision
© Aurora Wilder Collective (Jennifer Pritchard in collaboration with Patrick Corrigan and DALL-E), “Aurora Wilder”, 2022-23
Musée Magazine
Written by Jania Marissa
The Brand Library and Art Center is currently showing a photography exhibition titled “If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision”. The soul of this exhibition explores the emotional connection we humans have to images and photographs. These emotional connections solidify memories which create the narratives of our human experience. How we see the world, each other, and ourselves. These photographs within the exhibition revolve around the theme of ‘memory’, however, the photographs in these shows are not just purely based on the past but also confronting the future.
The artist’s work in this collection holds the duality of being connected to the memories of the past, those emotional experiences that have deeply affected us and follow us through the rest of our lives but also the continual movement forward of time, the unknown of the future. The past is confronted not as a nostalgic walk in the park, but more so a collection of traumatic and or commonly silenced experiences that are being given a voice, given a spotlight to be seen. The future is the unknown, ideally the future will not reflect the horrors of the past but rather give reward to the perseverance of the past. The intersectionality between the two points of reality is where the show emerges. The observer can see inside the mind of each individual artist’s ‘memories' and confront them with the artist, giving a more intimate and vulnerable understanding to the photographs and the identity and story of the corresponding artist…