This project is about remembrance, recalling, and letting go.
The fear and anxiety connected to the idea of transience has been with me since I was a very small child. Ever since, I have been trying to find peace with it. I often confront myself with these feelings, maybe to prepare for the moments of loss, or maybe to learn to accept transience as a part of everyday life. I am still searching for the answers.
This project began while I was enlarging personal photographs to create argentotypes, and I always kept all the test sheets. Slowly, the idea grew from these materials. I turned to my private analogue archive to explore my relationship with fading memories, loss, and release. It was a collection of photographs I had taken over the years, of my loved ones and everyday life. I selected negatives, grouped them by time periods or themes, and enlarged them onto new sheet films. As a final step, I created a kind of releasing ritual: I burned and melted the negatives into fragmented montages. It was emotional to watch my most personal images blur, distort, and disappear. Through this destruction, I also gave up the chance to reprint the memories they carried.
I then created an installation from these altered pieces. I suspended them in the space, projected them onto the wall — as the objects move and their shadows shift, the experience becomes like trying to recall a memory — unclear, fading, and full of gaps. I also wanted to build an atmosphere that invites the viewer to slow down and immerse themselves in the work. This installation creates space for fragmented memories, silence, and slow perception.