Identity and our relationship of being in the world are forged around the notion of memory.
It has many faces; a wanderer of time, it plunges us into a space other than the one in which we currently find ourselves. We are witnessing a derealization of place and a negation of time.
Its representation spaces takes on multiple characters, with a blurred and undulating border. A double representation is then formed, suggesting something off-camera, a mystery which becomes the flesh of the imagination. Like a half-open door leading to “another”, it is a fragment of time which becomes the expression of a whole always just out-of-sight. This duality marks a feeling of absence, of the invisible. Absence of the present or absence of the past, it is “the invisible like the relief and depth of the visible”.
Time and space together form a wave, in which memories are gradually diluted, giving way to the echo of an absence. These characters wander through places of memory, like a painting of the strange in everyday life. Where everything we knew suddenly seems so foreign to us: this is where lack and absence are born. Memory is fleeting, moving and powerful in its fragility. This is where all its beauty lies. The lack is elusive and submerges the character into a hypothesis of life. In memory, we oppose what is to what is no longer: past and present, two incompatible possible worlds. However, there is no pre-existence of a world to its representation. This is therefore an attempt to make the before and after coincide in a single image.
It is through this image that both the past and memories evaporate, like a farewell waltz. Memory flees, faces melt, only the footprints remain, fragile and fleeting.
From these footprints, memory emerges and takes shape.
« Forms dissolve themselves because they do not exist in their fixity and identity, because there are only images in the world. »
Eric Dufour,
David Lynch : Matière, Temps et Image