i forgot to remember
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, 2024-2025
Memory does not function as a single act of recall. It emerges unevenly—through fragments, repetitions, omissions, and returns. It is shaped by movement, by proximity, by what is encountered indirectly or too late. i forgot to remember unfolds from this condition. The installation does not present memory as something recovered or restored, but as something negotiated in real time, through attention, choice, and bodily presence. Throughout the installation, elements repeat: rope, knots, weight, suspension, repair, thresholds and transitions, acts of offering, choice, touch, and proximity. Things are held together provisionally. Nothing insists on permanence. Cloth is not used here as image alone, but as structure, shelter, and memory-bearing material. The installation unfolds through movement rather than explanation. Meaning shifts with position. What is remembered changes depending on where one stands, how long one stays, and what one carries forward.
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Studio Assistant: Elana Adler
Read “Circle of Clarity” by Katarina Weslien in the Maine Arts Journal
Read “Modern Tapestries star in two New England exhibitions” by Faye Wolfe
Read “Katarina Weslien: I Forgot To Remember” by Chris Crosman
