An installation piece with a single channel digital projection based on found regular 8mm film footage. This edited loop is projected onto a screen, knit from raw white wool and suspended from the ceiling in the middle of the room, and unravels onto the gallery floor.
The Memory Stitch recalls and reclaims discarded visual memories from the past through the lens of the intertwined and the unraveled. Based on silent film footage found in a second-hand store in Winnipeg, this piece seeks to recreate short stories from lost family memories and to question fragments from the lives of the unknown. Spanning from 1934 to the1950’s, the images are reconfigured into simple narratives that evoke a sense of nostalgia, recollection and history that leaves space for the viewers to create stories in their own minds. While the screen captures the images it also blurs this fragmented reality.