The practice of archiving started roughly ten years ago, as an imperative to record “evidences” of a new life experience that was just unfolding – the “self-imposed exile”.
Freshly landed from my hometown in Transylvania to an unknown Paris, in the winter of 2008, being granted a scholarship for artistic research, i found myself as the days went by, bit by bit constrained to inhibit most of direct connections with my native country, starting with the use of language. I embraced my new existence in France, trying to assimilate and absorb as much as i could from the new surroundings.
The interrogation and understanding of the new order in my life took on my artistic practice and transferred the exploration of the identity and the mechanisms of the intimacy to the core of my work. I started to amass and archive the items that would describe my “striving” throughout the day (train/bus/tram tickets, bills, medical receipts, notes, food packages…), in a frantic attempt to “freeze” and preserve the “hard facts” of a singular mythology in progress: my own.
By collecting / classifying and finally displaying objects that are inherent to the “individual mythology” – either having crossed the owner´s path or being closely affiliated to their personal history – the memory-atlas opens a reflection towards the boundaries and connections between the aspects of materiality of the memory and the gesture of forsaking, offering or publicly disclosing a personal item.
©Luiza Mogosanu | Berlin 2018
THE ART OF MEMORY
An ongoing installation
THE ART OF MEMORY: taxonomy
IDENTIFICATION
NOTES
TICKETS
PARIS GOODS
SILBER UND GOLD
PRESENT
KRANK
FOUND
FUNKTION
PHOTOGRAPHS
PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Photos: © das Graufeld
© Luiza Mogosanu 2018
luiza mogosanu 
totally brilliant!
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Beautiful works. I wish I could bottle each of my memories like this – so as not to let them go off and so that I could take them out from time to time….
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Lovely poetic representation – thank you so much for such words!!…
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Very inspiring, such a great idea. And engaging.
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Big thank you, dear Sheree, for the great energy boost – it comes at the perfect moment, after a draining work week… Lovely vibes back to you!! 🙂
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Any time my lovely
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Love the idea of the jars! Beautiful execution. I’m a fan of Joseph Cornell and I think you’ve captured the idea of Cornell in your own unique way. I’ve always had in mind the idea of doing something similar in a framing medium and about memory, but have never managed to do it. It is not so easy. Congratulations.
Tony
http://breadtagsagas.com/
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Oh, big thank you on that one. As i´m in the moment tossing and turning over an introductory text on the `Art of Memory` show – that was the kick i needed… Thank you. Cornell revisited. Greets from Berlin!
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Great concept
Simply beautiful
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See you on the other side of creativity
As Sheldon Always
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Thanks so much for your words… A great day to you ! 🙂
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I absolutely adore this!
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Thank you so much. As i said, i love your work as well! A lovely day to you!
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Intriguing, seeing everything set out in jars.
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Canned for time(s) to come… The amount of objects that surround us is pretty amazing, as it is our connection (affinity) to them… Cheers and sunny days from Berlin to Nottingham! 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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