Memotherapy I.

In their anthropomorphism the objects that furnish it become household gods, spatial incarnations of the emotional bonds and the permanence of the family group. These gods enjoyed a gentle immortality until the advent of a modern generation which has cast them aside, dispersed them – even, on occasion, reinstated them in an up-to-date nostalgia for whatever is old. As often with gods, furniture too thus gets a second chance to exist, and passes from a naēve utility into a cultural baroque.
Jean Baudrillard: The Traditional Environment = The System of Objects – Structures of Interior Design, 1968

The video, slowed down to the edge of perceptibility of motion, presents pulsating, wobbly, revolving and floating objects dissolve from one spatial section to another, while at individual points of the space of the installation we hear personal testimony reflecting upon the given material milieu. The personal effects of someone we have lost, the impressions of the objects in space, the merciless physical reality and indirect nature of the objects is perhaps a familiar feeling to everyone. In my work, I was engaged in a specific way with space and the objects in space, with the relationship between space, object and memory. Those intimate spheres, emerging, disappearing and dissolving together – concrete living spaces that speak – are the expressions of our state of mind and reflections of the past, all at once. The objects in the film – just like memories – disappear, emerge again, come into focus, then blur. Their existence is definitively uneradicable, just as our memories are not relegable. The placement of these objects into new constellations – floating out of a given space, swimming into another interior – is for me a kind of symbolic “decluttering”: release and absolution.

Photo Sára Gink-Miszlivetz & Anna Ildikó Pető

Post-production
Post Edison – András Szurdi
C³Center for Culture & Communication Foundation – András Szőnyi

Thanks Patay Panna & Sarodi Flóra

Special thanks Zsolt Czakó, Gábor Gerhes, Viola Kaulics, Ágnes Kamondy, Fanny Kondorosi, Judit Kopper, Dóra Máthé, István Nyári, Zsófia Oravecz, Theodóra Pásztor, Dávid Szőnyei, Kata Vásárhelyi

Supported by
National Cultural Fund
Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest