The Forgetting Ritual I
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This series examines forgetting mechanisms and semi-conscious memory management as one of the fundamental conditions of contemporary society. It focuses on how collective memory is shaped, redirected, and sometimes deliberately concealed.
The mechanism targeting social memory operates both from outside and within society. Events, traumas, and realities are rapidly altered, rewritten with new images, new narratives, and new distracting elements. Over time, this becomes normalized again. Forgetting is no longer incidental, it becomes procedural.
Individuals become accustomed to abandoning events and emotions at an extraordinary speed, replacing one reality with another without fully processing either. What appears to be passive amnesia gradually transforms into a wordless ritual. The act of forgetting becomes structured, almost ceremonial - repeated, internalized, and socially reinforced.
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This series examines forgetting mechanisms and semi-conscious memory management as one of the fundamental conditions of contemporary society. It focuses on how collective memory is shaped, redirected, and sometimes deliberately concealed.
The mechanism targeting social memory operates both from outside and within society. Events, traumas, and realities are rapidly altered, rewritten with new images, new narratives, and new distracting elements. Over time, this becomes normalized again. Forgetting is no longer accidental, but becomes procedural.
Individuals become accustomed to abandoning events and emotions at an extraordinary speed, replacing one reality with another without fully processing either. What appears as passive amnesia gradually transforms into a wordless ritual. The act of forgetting becomes structured, almost ceremonial - repeated, internalized, and socially reinforced.
- In this work, wet-on-wet, dripping, splashing, and collage techniques were used.
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