At a time when the practice of self-documentation has become a mass obsession, it seems crucial to reflect upon the effects of instant digital technology on our experience of the present. Yours Truly curates the personal video archive of Melissa Ghazale in an attempt to re-conceive the notions of memory and subjectivity as re-framed through new modes of recording.
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.prcssn (Seville ; 2018) Video Error 13"41 Melissa shreds all of her ex’s relationship footage in an ever failing attempt to erase him from her memory. She slices her videos visually and chronologically as a symbolic imitation of paper shredders that were previously used to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents. The glitch is a result of an encoding formula (byebyte) that supposedly deletes all the empty digits from the different video files. |
Cumulus, (Seville ; 2018 - ongoing)
Universal Personal Archive
In reference to iCloud storage, Cumulus is a polysemic archive puzzled out of banal, random, and everyday home videos from around the world. This assimilation of personal yet unrecognizable footage engages the spectator to familiarize with foreign spaces and relate to their inhabitants. What was once somebody’s personal video is now rendered permeable to the spectator’s own recognition.
Universal Personal Archive
In reference to iCloud storage, Cumulus is a polysemic archive puzzled out of banal, random, and everyday home videos from around the world. This assimilation of personal yet unrecognizable footage engages the spectator to familiarize with foreign spaces and relate to their inhabitants. What was once somebody’s personal video is now rendered permeable to the spectator’s own recognition.