Taking Part In 'Memento III' Exhibition

I am exhibiting in this show! I've submitted 10 photographs and each individual one will be displayed in the exhibitions of the participating countries' art colleges.

FREE ENTRY

Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm

PRIVATE VIEWS

23rd May 6-11pm (SU Bar High Holborn)

30th May 6-9pm (Central Saint Martins)

Memento is an international project which encourages foreign exchanges within the arts. Seven European institutions are taking part this year. Students from a variety of artistic disciplines have worked to create 'postable' work under the theme of memory and recollection: Memento. Their work is being exhibited in seven different cities simultaneously. Running for two weeks these works will be exhibited in London - first at High Holborn 'We Are Arts' gallery and then at Central Saint Martins SU gallery.

Flyer for Holland exhibition

LONDON CURATOR'S NOTES

'The development of photography and cinematography saw us become a visually obsessed society, documenting every event digitally instead of through natural memory alone.  In truth, how many birthdays has one had in one’s lifetime that have not been documented artificially?  Over time these artificial memories have become art forms in their own right.

Natural memory has long been just a platform or forum for knowledge.  But it has developed into an art form in its own right: an ability to retain rather than a source for retaining.  In addition to the mental act of remembering becoming a form of art, memory itself can be an artistic medium.  For similar to all other media in art, memory has the ability to document reality, no matter how disjointedly or inaccurately.

The work displayed here, the ‘artificial memories’, embody the one thing that natural memory cannot: a visual, the ability to share with others through images instead of words. Even when these artificial reproductions are not ‘real’ - such as the still image of a photograph or the impressions of an artist - they provide that important cue to remind us that the moment existed, and was documented: to be remembered.'

- Sarah Gifford