“hide me in your humiliation”, two-channel video, sound, 2020
The retrieval of memory involves the brain replaying a pattern of neural activities that were originally generated in response to a particular event; an echo of how the brain perceives the actual circumstance. Thus, there is no real distinction between the act of remembering and the act of thinking. “hide me in your humiliation” considers how memories can mutate through time since our access to it is hinged by how we perceive the present.
The title is drawn from a scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which Joel desperately tries to preserve memories of a relationship as they are being gradually erased; in doing so, he attempts to reimagine and relocate the memories.
The exhibition navigates through the process of how memories are re-shaped and re-written by other changes within ourselves from the moment the original event had happened and the instance that we had accessed it.
