#reconstructive memory

Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

Memento

Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

Memento. 

Schema #1, 'Nine birds and a river'. Framed installation. Gelatin silver prints, Platinum print, pigments over gold and palladium leaves.

“We take for granted that photography is a memory and memories are like photographs. But any of these statements are true. As Roland Barthes wrote: "A photograph is never a memory", and memories are not like snapshots, they are created by an active cognitive process. All our perceptions are stored as a smattering of impressions that we interlace together as a seamless narrative of feelings. Likewise, remembering involves a reconstruction of past events. This recreated memory is never the same. We don't retrieve the original memory but the last one we reconstructed. Each time we tell a story, we embellish it; hence we change it.”

Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

Memento.

Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

Memento

We know what we’re doing

Me;

Reconstructive memory