2009
videoinstallation, 10:01 min.
featuring: Alicja Filip
In the installation etitled “Forever”, the artists have touched the subject of memory and emotions, which have been brought up by photography, as a medium and, at the same time, as reali objects. Viewieng hundreds of photos stored at the Photography Department of the National Museum in Gdańsk, they asked a question about the impact of such imprints on individual experiences. the film shows a limitless process of the preservation of photos. Preservation of memories, and their resuscitation, is being conducted in the conservator’s laboratory, where women’s hands have been undertaking the endless effort of saving the matter. Similary to the video, the exhibition space arrangement is made of only traces of photos-signs of pictures that have been saved only in the viewers’ imagination.
