Memory is the capacity to retain, reconstruct and reinterpret past experience. In art and culture it can become material for personal history, collective identity, archives, monuments, sound, images and storytelling.
Doris Salcedo’s Fragmentos turns weapons surrendered by the FARC into a metal floor created with the participation of women who experienced sexual violence during Colombia’s conflict. Instead of building another heroic monument above us, Salcedo places history beneath our feet. I find that reversal powerful. A monument usually asks us to look up. This one…
A Journey Through Transition and Longing You’d Be Pretty Miserable Too – Peter Doig’s Journey from Trinidad to North London The tropical warmth of Trinidad is a stark contrast to the gloomy atmosphere of North London, and it is this shift that has permeated the works of renowned artist Peter Doig. Born in Scotland and…
