Niside Panebianco
Ephemerals, 2021
This project explores the notion of the ephemerality of memory and its unreliability over time that can affect the information we strive to remember. Very often, our remembrances are soaked in invention, they are a made-up projection of a past dimension crafted by our mind.
Although our memories are based on our experiential facts, when extracted from their real time dimension in the form of a remembrance, they become part of a substrate where they no longer stand out individually, but rather mix with our other experiences and feelings. As a consequence, when we try to frame a specific memory, it often carries within a certain contamination.
Ephemerals is based on my own misleading recollections. It takes the shape of a rambling, irregular journey that recreates, through the overlapping of elements, the intimate atmosphere of my mindscapes. Images of my present surroundings in Lisbon blend with archive pictures from my hometown in Italy, creating abstract compositions that aim to represent my sense of displacement in the layers of time and space.
