2020 | Archive, expanded letter, performance
So many years will be spent searching, studying, classifying, before my life is secured, carefully arranged and labeled in a safe place -secure against theft, fire and nuclear war- from whence it will be possible to take it out and assemble it at any point. Then, being thus assured of never dying, I may finally rest.
Christian Boltanski, Research and Presentation of All the Remains of my Childhod, 1944-1950, 1969.
"Closure" is the inscription of my story, the three pieces that compose it -Atlas, a Letter and Declaration- are forms of the memories that are accumulated, stored and recovered. Events and experiences always leave a residual mark on their occurrence - papers, notes, music, films, photographs, injury.
These objects act as mnemonic devices, that when placed together constitute a personal archive. In this case, the role of the artist is that of a collector and archaeologist of her own narrative.
The drive behind all of this is the fight against oblivion, an urge to preserve the remnants of life beyond ...
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atlas
archive | work in progress
"Atlas" is a personal archive. As of September 2020, it consists of 80 A5 compositions.
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a letter ...
"a letter" is an expanded letter, made of 42 sheets of beige paper.
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![p. 1](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/2eb4030f-46ce-4e31-9899-8c4526b12111_rw_1200.jpg?h=bcb4e844e647b0414e4bb4ca88001b5c)
p. 1
![p. 5](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/57c67ac5-2406-4e7a-84d1-a7f5ea5a3268_rw_1200.jpg?h=fbd415f5a571f77ae21e6c0b9c2053f6)
p. 5
![p. 11](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/6e0c3adc-4121-4a98-9500-7b0b18dc038d_rw_1200.jpg?h=a2a290a0c1d7f0f8887cbf03ac735004)
p. 11
![p. 12](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/c188a7e4-b5ac-4a16-b03a-2ffe3be35f1c_rw_1200.jpg?h=6fd53e7630084fc3b011169cd7e2422f)
p. 12
![p. 13](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/099f54b4-5eeb-4ead-b07e-971581c105a6_rw_1200.jpg?h=2b8de6af896b7969f0e52f31636a7994)
p. 13
![p. 23](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/2bd8929b-f478-4f17-9666-c45f89f56ef3_rw_1200.jpg?h=176ef7a5bfaf913c0308aa403d06e337)
p. 23
![p. 29](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/2256e57b-95a2-4a75-ab4f-45f3c8a49869_rw_1200.jpg?h=60a946b7c1406e69c470d97e4ca049d5)
p. 29
![p. 32](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/d3b9638f-ff4f-46f2-b909-c5bedc39d2d7_rw_1200.jpg?h=e8ada0180c3bc2840de50c4ee8d336ad)
p. 32
![p. 39](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/dd6099a5-d92a-4373-a3b1-01a049ecb43a_rw_1200.jpg?h=2f6404261bdcdcb6d881846a7686f0b7)
p. 39
![p. 40](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/bcd716bc-38db-4cf6-a3c4-ab9c73589f95_rw_1200.jpg?h=69096a0fa1d835301c2173f021c19e2a)
p. 40
![p. 42](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/fdbfb914-952f-435b-94e2-7bc47908610b/7d22620e-29f7-469b-9ae9-9f93674480a8_rw_1200.jpg?h=6e2d2072ec22d3467d37d5974e711f82)