Exposition

My present is more than I remember (2025)

Clara Sharell

About this exposition

"My present is more than I remember" explores the entanglements of word and image and their role in constructing memory and identity. Drawing on my four-year practice at the KABK, it analyses the methods I’ve developed and examines the interrelation between memory, photography, and writing. Delving into personal memories and intergenerational connections within my family, I seek to understand how inherited experiences and stories shape my personal and artistic identity, guided by the act of weaving as a concept and a material. Furthermore, the paper examines the existential role of collective and familial memory in shaping Jewish and German-Jewish identity. Using a range of texts and styles, including sociological and art-historical theories, experimental diary entries, poems, and personal anecdotes, I explore the parallels between the construction of memory and the construction of photographs. Just as photography can never represent the essence of a person, memory will never be able to represent the full truth of the past.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsCollective Memory, Jewish, Germany, PHOTOGRAPHY, writing, intergenerational memory, weaving, family archives, Sociology, experimental writing, non-linear storytelling, art history and theory, intergenerationality, Jewish-German identity
date25/07/2023
published02/06/2025
last modified02/06/2025
statuspublished
share statusshared with registered RC users
copyrightall rights reserved
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2348302/2348303
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2348302
published inResearch Catalogue

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