"all used was dead before"

Listen to me. Like you, I know what it is to forget.

No, you don't know what it is to forget.

Like you, I am endowed with memory. I know what it is to forget.

No, you are not endowed with memory.

Like you, I too have struggled with all my might not to forget. Like you, I forgot. Like you, I longed for a memory beyond consolation, a memory of shadows and stone. For my part I struggled every day with all my might against the horror of no longer understanding the reason to remember. Like you, I forgot. Why deny the obvious necessity of remembering? Listen to me. I know something else. It will begin again.

(from Hiroshima mon Amour)

My work all used was dead before showed Marguerite Duras' words in seeing red.

They might describe a perspective on the installed environment as a whole and shape an understanding of an underlying attempt of trying not to forget - finding oneself in the difficult situation of needing to withhold an unspeakable presence and/or absence and concurrently displaying it - for (not) coming to terms with it. For staying alive.




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floorplan




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אותו (לא) ידעתי




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sui_site or how to disappear completely - outside




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sui_site or how to disappear completely - inside




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slightly damaged frontal cortex




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seeing red




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seeing red & sui_site & אותו (לא) ידעתי




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paraphilia - wingblind




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paraphilia - series




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paraphilia - flying card




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paraphilia - bird




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paraphilia - bird detail




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match




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match & paraphilia




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cryptographies I & II