i only remember having forgotten, 2024
inkjet prints
Due to the early years of my life being deeply impacted by the 2008 financial crisis, a home is a place under perpetual construction where gestures of domesticity bind experiences. The continuous act of moving throughout my early years has created subtle yet significant distinctions between each residence, blurring the lines between past and present. Each new home has become a repository of memories, and sentiments that lay latent until being rediscovered through family archival images. Within the series “i only remember having forgotten,” I pose profound questions about how memories and traumas are embodied within domestic spaces. This inquiry prompts me to reflect on how our environments serve as vessels for our emotional histories. By physically reinstalling large-scale photographs from my previous homes—each at various stages of construction—within my current apartment, I create a poignant narrative that unfolds through the act of layering—revealing the final image as a multiplicity of experiences that disrupts the linear perception of time, inviting viewers to navigate a more complex understanding of memory.