Past Exhibition

Art on Demand 4.2

Artist Jacqueline Miller and Curated by Kendra Anderson

Mar 15, 2018
to
May 06, 2018

EXHIBITION

Memory does not rely on specific dates; it anchors itself according to moments that remain with us as long as we hold on to them, moments that are specifically significant to each individual. These memories fade with time, but they can also be suddenly jolted back into our conscious thought—by a person, an object, an image, a sound, or a place.

In her mixed-media work Chunnel of Experience (2017), the artist Jacquelyn Miller explores and communicates her own memories of personal travel, using carving and photo-transfer to visually imprint her memories onto a large-scale wood panel. Miller’s use of photographic techniques is particularly resonant with the theme of memory; photography was long held to be a truthful record or evidence that what is seen in the image actually happened in front of that camera, and thus the photograph could function as a tool for triggering memory in an individual. Although digital photographic manipulation has challenged our impression of photography as a reliable witness of real events, nevertheless a photographic image is still widely understood to capture times and places long lost to the past, as a reminder of the fleeting nature of our world and our own mortality. Combined with the permanent, concrete gouges carved into the surface of the material, Miller’s work embodies a tension between memory’s ephemerality on the one hand, and the capacity for memories to suddenly be recalled as immediate and present, on the other. This impression is reinforced by the images Miller has used in her work; as in human memory, some are rendered in crisp detail while others are obscure and vague, faded as with time.

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