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My grandmother is looking directly into the camera, her gaze is intimate, knowing and disarmingly present. I have been wondering what thoughts were running through her mind at that very moment, dancing with a man whose name she couldn’t recall when I asked. It is a quiet but powerful moment, one that has stayed with me throughout my Master studies.
For the past year, I’ve worked closely with my grandparents’ photo archive, dealing with questions of intergenerational relationships, but also retracing their love story. Due to my grandmothers deteriorating eye-side, I have been exploring enlargements and scale as means to make a dialog about the pictures possible. It has been comforting to realise that this need for archiving, for preserving the history of one’s loved ones, and the deep fascination with nostalgia and personal memory seem to be such universal human experiences.
By placing this photograph on a billboard, I hope to invite viewers into this intimate moment, one that belongs to my grandmother, and now to me, but that might also feel familiar to others.
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