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- Vera Mennens (1991) is an artist, photographer, and co-founder of at7 project space based in Amsterdam. Her works look at the question how you can research historiography as an artist. While being on the verge of fact and fiction, unraveling the gap between past and present, she questions how the archive helps to construct and preserve our collective and personal memory and what the future of that archive can be. Working through the medium of film she creates constellations of overlapping images taken from public and personal archi... moreVera Mennens (1991) is an artist, photographer, and co-founder of at7 project space based in Amsterdam. Her works look at the question how you can research historiography as an artist. While being on the verge of fact and fiction, unraveling the gap between past and present, she questions how the archive helps to construct and preserve our collective and personal memory and what the future of that archive can be. Working through the medium of film she creates constellations of overlapping images taken from public and personal archives, books, slide projections and found objects accompanied and brought together by vocal narratives. The work provides a site of relations across time and place that invites to take a position between the collective and personal, fact and fiction, past and present.edit
Throughout the years, humans have come up with explanations for the way time presents itself to us. On the one hand, it creates the illusion of a linear continuum, on the other, times connect, run together, or exist parallel to one... more
Throughout the years, humans have come up with explanations for the way time presents itself to us. On the one hand, it creates the illusion of a linear continuum, on the other, times connect, run together, or exist parallel to one another. This way of looking at time raises the question of what the ‘now’ is, and what kind of relation it has to other moments in the past, present and future. Being on the verge of fact and fiction, together with the writings of Walter Benjamin, Susan M. Pearce, Henri Bergson and my own, I try to find a way to connect the past and present in order to maintain our relationship with history and search for new ways of giving history a voice.
