What does memory mixed with visual archives become when these are constantly revisited in an effort to reconstruct a narrative?
The works of Cronin, Grasmann, and Clarke become familiar yet strange. They change, expand, and transform into a distant interior –stuck in impermanence.
As these artists converge, a dialogue connecting painting and photography arises. Their aesthetic qualities live in a threshold between a formal language and a vaguely kin fiction that triggers a synapse within the memories of the observer as it enters into a collective speculative interior.
From images from childhood to iconic events or places inserted in quotidian landscapes, interpretations of objects and images from old catalogues, these works redefine the meaning and feeling of an old souvenir, and capture the passage of time by mixing what was once with what could be. They can be seen as eternal moments where time and place become subjective segments, connected to a story that rises from an eternal interior place, stuck in memory.
While reconstructing a present –and even projecting a possible future– the works in this exhibition live in a multiplicity of dimensions. Places become content, and the content becomes a place.*
*Emanuele Coccia, The Life of Plants