Every memory is being fundamentally reshaped by digital technology. Echoing Weronika Gesicka’s assertion that “memory is like a flexible mass, prone to transformations,” our recollections can update, modify, and distort before being stored again. My project, Where I am, you are, draws on surrealism and digital manipulation to both embrace and disrupt the living memories of my physical family archive. This work explores the fragmentation of memory, highlighting how we stop actively remembering in a digital context and lose the sensory texture of our past. By spending hours looking through these physical documents and working with photographs from the 1900s, I experience a profound sense of nostalgia. Yet this archival journey is also intensely personal; it is a search for a place where I truly belong and fit, bridging the gap between their world and mine. By using surrealist distortion, I have transformed the family album from a literal record into a fluid, psychological landscape. Ultimately, this approach subverts the idea of a “perfect” digital memory by prioritising subjective feeling and dream-like and surreal imagery over strict historical accuracy.
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