Memory, fragmentation artist reference

Reference: Mika Nakamura-Mather

Fragments

An exhibition held at the Webb Gallery, QCA, in August also really resonated with my thoughts and themes although its focus is primarily on lived in spaces and notions of home.

Nakamura-Mather writes in her artist statement:

Memories are by definition incomplete, smaller parts of a greater whole that have become disconnected from the flow of narrative structure by passage of time. Their presence is both illuminating and confusing. Fragments brings together memories and materials that speak of my home in Japan but fail to tell the complete story, too much has already fallen through the gaps.

Again this idea of fragmentation, and the slippage between the materials evoking these memories (in this exhibition photography was the medium used also) and the loss of the actual memory due in this case to the passage of time and physical change of location. Nakamura-Mather creates physical layers by using the 3d shape of the box to layer the photographs printed on acetate to emphasise the illumination yet confusion of memories - nothing is set in stone. In this exhibitions the fragments make one unified whole exhibition ....this challenges me for my work to present it leaving something unfinished, unknowable... leaving a question mark hanging invisibly in the space between the viewer and the work. My memories of my mum seem to me more intangible than memories of my home as it is still there and when I return at the end of the year the physical building will still stand yet the presence of mum will be suggested there but never again fully realised.