Stars in the night

Perhaps “memory” is a mechanism of storytelling. Just as governments construct national myths through flags, portraits, banners, and parades, we also carve personal myths out of trauma, dreams, and fragmented glimmers of light and shadow. Yet the infiltration of technology is reshaping the way we remember—constant shifts between multiple identities, fluid experiences of subjectivity, and the fragmentation of time have rendered memory chaotic, distorted, and even fractured.

Amid the interweaving of countless images and streams of information, our memories are continuously manipulated, transformed, constructed, and overwritten, as if we were inhabiting a “sandbox”—a field without a fixed form, where testing and reconfiguration never cease.

This series of works emerges from my sensibilities within technological environments, my experiences with digital tools, and my observations of how contemporary individuals use images and social platforms as modes of performance. Through the relationship between images and people, I attempt to trace the ineffable states of memory experienced by modern individuals, and to explore how, in the digital age, we construct, preserve, and forget.