The Forgetting Ritual II
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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, 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 tacit 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 coincidental, 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 an unspoken ritual. The act of forgetting becomes structured, almost ceremonial - repeated, internalized, and socially reinforced.
- This work uses wet-on-wet, collage, dripping, and splattering techniques.
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