The ‘substance’ of memory
A new Western Australia exhibition of works is investigating the way in which new media has altered the family archive and how we relate to our precious photographs.
A new Western Australia exhibition of works is investigating the way in which new media has altered the family archive and how we relate to our precious photographs.
Emily Hornum’s exhibition, The Substance of Memory, is part of her Master of Visual Arts studies at Edith Cowan University (ECU). The exhibition incorporates videos, projections, photomedia and sound installations to immerse audiences in a nostalgic dialogue with family archives.
Preserving her own family memories through photographs has always been important to Ms Hornum, especially as her grandmother suffered with Alzheimer’s disease and she also lost her father at a young age.
The Substance of Memory exhibition, which is part of the FRINGE WORLD Festival 2015, uses Ms Hornum’s own family photographs from the 1900s to create a series of installations that incorporate digital media and the traditional photographic process.
Fusing the boundaries of analogue and digital technologies the artworks illuminate some of the ways we use devices to record our family memories.
“Digital media has changed the way we capture, record, store, share, tag and narrate our memories,” Ms Hornum says. “And because of this shift to new media we’re now also photographing so much more,” she adds.
Ms Hornum will use her two week artist residency at Spectrum Project Space at ECU’s Mount Lawley Campus as an open studio until 25 January, 2015.
The Substance of Memory exhibition runs from Thursday, 29 January until Saturday, 7 February 2015 at Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley Campus, Edith Cowan University.
