Are you sure you remember?
Photographs invoke memories, and memories are stored as images in our minds,therefore becoming one and the same thing. What if they are influenced by other people’s view points or recollections? Reality is unique to an individual, it’s the experiences and personal perspectives that make us perceive our reality the way we do. What if this reality is lost, due to lost data in our mind? What if the photograph that portrayed such reality is also corrupted? Does the perception and recollection of others affect such memory? Can it also corrupt the images in our brain?
“Are you sure you remember?” is a project that deals with such questions. It aims to portray how images as well as memories and reality can be effected by others. Presented in this interactive project is a collection of personal childhood images which the photographer invites the audience to influence and alter by inserting their presence in the actual coding of the images.
This technical but simplistic process known as glitching, affects the images’ coding, therefore radically corrupting the memory, changing the images’ reality to one which inherently assimilates the participant.
Thus the participant and the photographer merge to create a new reality from an old memory, which in turn is still fractured and imperfect, and with time more so.
