FOTODOK is proud to announce the new exhibition ‘Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments’.
Collective memory, social memory, cultural memory, class memory, public memory, family memory, local memory, national memory, global memory, and collected memory… We live in an epoch of memory fever. The earlier decades of twentieth-century modernity had been driven by a focus on the future. After World War II, society’s attention was shifted towards the past. Processes of decolonization sparked a desire and urgency towards reframing and rewriting histories. Understanding the nature of remembrance, and pursuing the act of remembrance itself, increasingly became a core transdisciplinary interest across different cultures.
People do not remember in isolation, but within collectives, by taking part in social practices and sharing group experiences. Because individual memories are shaped and preserved through narratives, rituals, and images created by others, multiple questions arise: What is the relationship between personal and collective memory? How selective and exclusionary is the process of social remembering? Who drives and controls it? What is the media’s role in constructing collective memory?
‘Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments’ brings together artists whose work reflects on how collective memories of historical events have been formed through photography since the second half of the 20th century until today. The ’memory collectives‘ vary from families to nations, and from offline to online. The exhibition will present projects that investigate aspects of recent history that have been suppressed, and (de)construct photographic representations of relevant events which circulate in the public domain – family albums, mass media, social networks, and archives.
The exhibition features works by the following international artists: Parisa Aminolahi (IR, based in NL), Ana Paula Estrada (MX, based in AU), Florian Göttke (DE, based in NL), Délio Jasse (AO, based in IT), Anastasia Mityukova (RU/CH, based in NL), Lorie Novak (US), Jan Rosseel (BE), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (GR, based in US and NL), Max Pinckers (BE) & Sam Weerdmeester (NL, working in BE), Ben Krewinkel (NL).
With the support of the Mondriaan Fund, KF Hein Fund, the BankGiroLoterij Fonds – Doen Foundation, Fentener van Vlissingen, Fonds 21, City of Utrecht and the Pictoright Fund.
‘Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments’ will be on display from November 14th until February 23d.
The opening is at 17:00 on the 14th of November. Save the date!
Credits
The theme introduced to the FOTODOK’s programme by: Lisanne van Happen
Curator: Daria Tuminas
Production: Martha Stroo, Daria Tuminas, The Adventures of Mr. Soundmount, FOTOLAB
Design: HOAX
Fundraising: Femke Rotteveel, Lisanne van Happen, Daria Tuminas
Communication: Femke Rotteveel, Puck Barendrecht, Carmel Heldens, Patrick Cramer
![[Photobooks featured by team FOTODOK]
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Each week a FOTODOK team member highlights a photo book of his or her choice - rediscovered in their bookcases while working from home and an extra thanks to all photobook makers!
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This week: educator at FOTODOK Elsbeth Pijnappels (@something_elsy) chooses 'Take care of yourself' by Sophie Calle.
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Elsbeth: 'What do you do when your loved one breaks up with you via email? Artist Sophie Calle turned her heartbreak into art. The letter from her ex, a writer, is a carefully written farewell that concludes with the now legendary words "Prenez soin de vous" or "take good care of yourself".
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Sophie: "I asked 107 women, chosen to interpret the email because of their profession or skills - to analyze, comment, dance, sing in relation to the email. To treat the letter exhaustively. To understand it for me. To answer the letter for me. It was a way to take time, break it but foremost to take care of myself."
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The book is one of my favorites because the publication succeeded in capturing the experience of looking at the works as I saw it in Museum de Pont (2010). Different kinds of paper, small bound booklets, inserted DVDs with meditation, music and video, Braille paper and the portraits of the women with the letter. It is an appealing and thorough investigation into love, sorrow, rejection and failure, sometimes with humor, sometimes devious. A shared response from women with a different expertise but all an authority in their field.'](https://www.fotodok.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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