Welcome to the Memory Palace, Pleasure Dome, Toronto
February 17–24, 2021 Memory can refer to the faculty of the mind that stores past thoughts and images, or to the commemoration of someone or some place through the act of recalling. Through a series of short films, Welcome to the Memory Palace, curated by Pleasure Dome’s Clare Samuel, presents the architectures of memory, both personal and institutional, as fallible—at times even suspicious. Using archival footage as their primary material, each film engages a form of memory keeping that asks its viewer to watch slightly askance. From Sharlene Bamboat’s unreliable narration, to Madel...
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