Architecture of the Mind
11th October – 27th October, 2013
Architecture of the Mind by Selena de Carvalho explores the distance between the lived experience and the memory of experience, responding to neurological science that shows memories leave a physical trace in your brain.
Architecture of the Mind by Selena de Carvalho explores the distance between the lived experience and the memory of experience, responding to neurological science that shows memories leave a physical trace in your brain. Research demonstrates that the more that you access a memory the more it changes, as each time you ‘remember’ it is re-written neurologically, thus straying from the primary experience. Imagination digs in and around the original memory, filling the gaps between what we remember and what we think we remember. Blurring fact and fiction, this work wavers between nostalgia and how we yearn for the past, yet so often wish to alter it.