Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
Memory Palace
Started
12
September
2014
Ended
22
February
2015
Exhibition Details
The “Memory Palace” is a Greco-Roman technique that prompts its user to remember by populating imagined architectures with a sequential path of memories. By coupling physical and psychological structure, this subjective apparatus turns recollections, impressions and remembrances into the bricks and mortar of a mental dwelling. As one subsequently walks the mind through this fictive floorplan, he/she theoretically reconnects floating parcels into a single, unified tapestry. In practice, such passage reveals the dramatic renovation human memory performs upon history – transforming past events into personal narratives.
On the occasion of the CAC’s 75th anniversary this exhibition will present memory as soft, malleable clay. Rather than galvanizing history or renewing the supposed fixity of facts, Memory Palace will instead revel in remembering as a creative act: highlighting the way our recollections shift actual histories into imperfect, but quintessentially human legacies.
Franz Ackermann, Michael Ashkin, Louise Bourgeois, Stan Douglas, Simon Evans, Spencer Finch, Sarah Francis Hollis, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Guillermo Kuitca, Oscar Muñoz, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Hans Op de Beeck, Dennis Oppenheim, Walid Raad, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Robert Smithson, Andro Wekua, Mike Womack
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