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On a farm, deep in Västergötland, in the South of Sweden, I was captured by an undeniable connection to the past, that seems to continue living in the everyday life of the people who live and visit there. Within this place every memory of the past, regardless of chronological sequence, exists simultaneously. Seeping through walls and echoing through the landscape, this residue creates and informs the present. My art practice engages with personal memories that are deeply connected to place. I explore memory as an act of creation, and the presence of the past. My three-channel video installation Breath implies the act of resurrecting the past in the present, whilst engaging with memory as an entity defined by multiple and changing perspectives.

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Memory is constantly adapting and changing to the present circumstances. Time becomes a medium through which these changes and adaptations can occur. If memory is deeply implicated with temporality, and therefore time, what better mediums to explore memory than time-based mediums? Working within the field of time-based arts, my practice addresses memory through apparatus and mediums that have long been implicated with time. I consider the camera as memory apparatus, the moving image as the paradoxical death that continues to die.

 

Breath is of landscapes and artefacts layered with narrative. Within this work I locate where stories live: within a house, by the lake, in the summer barn, in a forest, the aim to present the interplay between landscape, artefact and narrative as the meeting of the past and the present. 

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Landscape becomes the anchor, artefact the trigger, and narrative the activator of the past in the present through memory.I examine, through an engagement with memory, the present as memorial of the past. 

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