History Documentation III: Exploring the Relationship between Records and Memory
This work series investigates the relationship between records and memory, providing a general exploration of the structure and system of memory-recollection based on physical records, as well as their properties. Experiences pass through the present moment and soon settle in the realm of the past, being 'recorded' either internally within ourselves or externally in the form of physical records. Memory can be described as the process of 're-presentation and reconstruction' of these experiences from the current standpoint. This process is realized in various forms, encompassing audiovisual elements, and the artist notes the 'selective' nature of the forms and processes of recollection that occur continuously.
History is established not through a continuous flow, but by the actions of events that segment the existing flow. The act of segmenting and extracting recorded experiences disrupts the temporal continuity of experiences, constituting an anti-mythical act. The artist presents the view that, beyond Benjamin's stance on the beauty of the explosion of continuity itself, the act of constructing a new continuity through the explosion of the existing continuity can lead to greater beauty and is an 'anti-mythical' act.
By recording the process of still life arrangement on video, the artist physically leaves behind a continuous experience. Subsequently, through editing processes such as frame-by-frame extraction and partial cropping, the experienced continuous record is fragmented and segmented. These post-production processes correspond to the recollection of recorded experiences, that is, the process of 're-presentation and reconstruction' of experiences from the current standpoint. The images summoned at this time are revealed as both digital and analog records, weathered and exposed.
