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Memory Etudes: Pilot
2022
Computer generated animation
5'50"
4K
Memory Etudes is a series of work which is produced based on thematic basis. It focuses on a space, time and memory and offers a cumulative way of seeing things. Depending on a specific place and time period, these etudes never shows anything new or something that never happened. It visually constructs all of the forms all together and tries to create new possibilities of contexts. Memory Etudes benefits from physical and digital archives but it does not prioritize any of the materials in the archives. In the new constructed model, every piece keep their initial forms. However, they lose their primary contexts. This type of approach to visualizing things allude to my manifestation of judging the recorded history, critizing the past, debating about the future, impossibility of preserving concepts, therefore, seeking new dialogues.
Memory Etudes: Pilot is a computer-based animation that focuses on the gallery’s memory and encapsulates the recollection of the exhibitions, which took place in Pilot Gallery, born from the artist's need and desire to know what was exhibited before him. While all the previous exhibitions before his establish the history of the space, they also form the gallery’s characteristics. The aforementioned characteristics play a role in shaping the audience’s expectations. Hence, the artist who is expected to hold an exhibition in such a venue is put under the pressure of the venue’s “aura”. The work fuelled by this invisible interaction confronts the audience with the prior exhibitions that are held in the venue. The video attempts to facilitate a confrontation, both for the artist and the audience, and a “Gesamtkunstwerk” that tries to present the gallery’s memory. The images and credit lines in the gallery's archive are modeled individually and appear together, side by side, even on top of one other, as if to remind us of working ways of memory's cumulative mode. This digital model presents a survey of memory in the 8 years between 2014-2021 with the gallery’s many exhibitions. Memory which is in the name of work references both the technique which was used digitally and the memory of the audience.
screenshot of the digitally constructed model
screenshot of the digitally constructed model
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video still