THE FUTURE HAS NO MEMORY
Elana Katz, Solo Exhibition
Opening: 16. November | Exhibition duration: 16.11.24 –18.01.25 | Artist Talk: 18.01.25
Curated by Petter Österlund
In this exhibition, Elana Katz looks at societal approaches to memory and post-memory regarding histories of violence and national trauma. Katz’s multimedia time-based works examine instances of erased collective memory, as well as practices of commemoration. The Future Has No Memory, also the title of a new installation premiering in this exhibition, pertains to disassociation and/ or denial of memory and reality. It refers to a common predicament of traumatic experience: a sense of doubt and uncertainty regarding the legitimacy of trauma and its aftermath. Related to dissociative tendencies, Katz’s new work examines the replica as a means to question what is “original” or “real” in relation to subject/ object, and memory.