70 Camberwell Church Street, London, SE5 8QZ
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Threading Memories
Paula McGurdy
10 August – 24 August
I am interested in memento mori and how memories can bring to mind our own mortality. Figuring the presence and absence of people from cradle to grave I am reiterating the notion of fragility and time. Stitch is significant for me as a representation of the domestic, childhood and the passing of time.
I use a pinhole technique, as a form of drawing, focusing on the holes and the space in between that these holes create, the gaps, the void, the loss. The process is a repetitive and slow one, similar to the passing of time with the finished work being suggestive of the transient nature of time. It is a work of process and signifies the physical rhythms of making.
Drawing is a way of registering time, making time and perhaps even stopping time. Piercing through paper leaves a fragile trace, an impression, of an image taken from a photograph, however it also seems to make these fleeting moments in life more permanent. It ensures that the drawing won?t fade, as it penetrates it is incorporated into the fabric of the paper, ensuring the memories of the image are captured before they fade, crumble and disappear. The action of the making becomes a memory in itself.
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