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(...) forgot to remember to forget (...)
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the Other Side of Home by Semin Hong
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South East-West Seasons, 2022 by Zaratea Gården Hurtig
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Hermitage, 2020-2021 by Ignacio Chico
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In Virtual Return You (can't) Dehaunt by Yarli Allison
Exhibition
(...) Forgot to Remember to Forget (...)
29 Oct 2022 – 5 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- Eltham College
- Mottingham Lane, Mottingham
- London
- SE9 4QF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train: Mottingham (15 mins from London Bridge)
(...) Forgot to Remember to Forget (...) is an exhibition featuring nine artists rethinking nostalgia’s interrelationship to memory, the home, identity, and migration.
About
Private view: 28th October, 6-9pm
29th October - 5th November
Opening time:
Saturdays 10am-4pm
Monday to Friday by appointment via info@geraldmooregallery.org or hfa@eltham-college.org.uk
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Nostalgia is widely viewed as a negative human experience that denies an absence of the present, and assumes loss of faith in the future. However, (...) Forgot to Remember to Forget (...) proposes nostalgia can instead hold a multiplicity of meanings and spatial and temporal dimensions. This exhibition will unfold three different notions of our perception of nostalgia.
Svetlana Boym’s idea of restorative nostalgia and reflective nostalgia demonstrates the complexity of our emotions toward the past. One can romanticise the ‘good old days, as a tool of escapism from the present harsh reality and yearning to return to the lost home. While also taking the sentiment as a valuable tool of self-reflection to live with what happened, learn and move on from it.
The third notion is based on Milan Kundera’s view of nostalgia as a deceptive sentiment. The home people long for is no longer the same but only exists in the process of endless exile. These three distinctions are not absolute binaries or a ‘correct’ perspective on nostalgia but instead a starting point in mapping this grey area on the outskirts of an imaginary home.
(...) Forgot to Remember to Forget (...) showcases artists whose research and practices explore, aesthetically and/or discursively, a sense of nostalgia embedded in the fragments of memory to reflect on the place attachment with our identity and a sense of belonging.
Curated by Yueh-Ning Lee & Sixten Liu @otherwiseproject
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Other related events: 5th November
Workshop| Pastel Dreams: Interactive Nostalgia Maps 12pm-2pm (RSVP here)
(...) Forgot to Remember to Forget (...) Film Screening 2pm-3pm (RSVP here)
Accessbility note
Wheelchair access is ground floor only, not for the 1st floor.
Accessible toilets and baby change facilities, Guidedogs only allowed
Please email @info@geraldmooregallery.org if you have any accessbility questions.
