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A journey though the human memory during sleep is the theme visualized on the external monitors of the three-monitor project 'Urban Memories'. Memory is represented as an outlandish network of architectonic spaces in Renaissance style. The openings in the installation provide a view of numerous mind-registered images of landscapes and cities. The sleeping body continually finds itself in another place inside or outside this labyrinth of buildings. Several times the framework of memories shrinks to the size of a ball and disappears in the panorama of a city. Then the process repeats itself. The deterioration of the landscapes and buildings which are stored in the memory is a recurring theme. It is emphasized by the cyclical images of the middle monitor: a building collapses after an explosion but at the same time rises again. This could be taken as a withaphor for the functioning of the memory, in which old memories are being replaced by new ones.
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Marie-Adèle Rajandream
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Computer graphics: Alexander Hahn, Illustrations: Jan Vredeman de Vries, Research: Irit Batsry
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