Saara Simonen: Memorybox / 18.–21.2.Vernissage Tue 17.2. 18–20

Saara Simonen: Memorybox / 18.–21.2.

Vernissage Tue 17.2. 18–20

Open Wed–Sat 12–20

"I remember how we climbed higher and higher up the branches of the apple trees. Toward the sky, we broke away from the ground and fled. We were mermaids, reflecting bright light. We dove toward the bottom. Pieces of us have been left behind in worn-out flip-flops, jump rope strands and treasures buried at the foot of raspberry bushes. Our past has been stuffed into a box. Under a lid, outside of time."

A memory box is a container for storing items that remind us of the past. Sometimes a memory box is deliberately assembled. Sometimes it comes about accidentally, in the corner of an attic or at the back of a wardrobe. Over time, days become material: greeting cards, broken toys, clothes that no longer fit, diary entries, and photographs in which memories twine. In objects, memories take on a three-dimensional form. Remembering is repetition, accumulation, detachment. Wearing down, wearing out, gathering. It is circulation along spiral paths. Memories are the bones of thoughts.