Speculative Scenarios 2021

Eryfili

Your Past Our Future

Your Past Our Future

In my research, I explore the ways one can re/de-construct their identity by manipulating photographic archives of their ancestors. I am basing my research on the notion of transgenerational transmission and the idea that our identity is heavily impacted by the experiences and lives of our ancestors. In particular I see skin as the archive of the transgenerational transmission but I extend the notion of the skin as tied to a physical body and take photos as skin sites where the transgenerational archive resides. Through collage practice, I am looking at the past in order to create new present and future narratives. By working on archives, I am also concerned with the responsibility, personal and shared, that such actions of deconstruction can carry in the future.