RECOLLECTION

2009

6 slide viewers, 6 slides, 6 cd players, 12 speakers, 6 cd-audio
dimensions variable

Six pictures, taken by myself or by some relative of mine in places that have left a mark on my life, shimmer in a dark room. Each photograph is accompanied by the recently recorded environmental sound of the same location displayed.
The images and sounds that shine through the darkness allow to metaphorically represent memories: fragments of the past that survive oblivion and that reappear, mingling and correlating different times and places.
The slide viewers and the cd players, on the other hand, allow to metaphorically represent memory and its mechanisms. Like memory, in fact, the viewers and the players tend to slowly "shut down" (because of the batteries running down), implicitly requiring, just like memory, to be "taken care of".
Moreover, the reduced size images and the low volume of the sounds induce the visitor to get closer, establishing a relationship of physical proximity, as well as of intimacy with the piece.