with essays by
Xandra Eden
John Roberts
Sarah Cook
Weatherspoon Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu
The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art is a 136-page, hardcover exhibition publication designed by the award-winning Volume, Inc. that includes images of work by artists Edgar Arceneaux, Deborah Aschheim, Louise Bourgeois, Janice Caswell, John Coplans, Pablo Helguera, Emma Kay, Dinh Q. Lê, Scott Lyall, David Rokeby, Mungo Thomson, Cody Trepte, Kerry Tribe, and Rachel Whiteread. Also included are brief biographies of the artists and essays by exhibition curator Xandra Eden, cultural theorist John Roberts, and new media curator and author Sarah Cook.
The Lining of Forgetting is inspired by the narrative of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983), “I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.” Memory as a process that involves equal parts of forgetting and remembering, and that is forever in editing mode, provides the guiding thesis of the exhibition and its catalogue.
An uneasy reliance on the silicon chip, spectacular advances in brain imaging and research, a massive population (the largest ever) entering their senior years; and a noted propensity for cultural amnesia have worked to increase society’s preoccupation with issues surrounding memory. The artists in The Lining of Forgetting explore the force of memory in our lives and reveal the complexity of personal, collective and artificial memory, and their interface.
The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art
ISBN: 978-1-890949-11-2
To order, please email [email protected]
About the Weatherspoon Art Museum
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets modern and contemporary art for the benefit of its multiple audiences, including university, community, regional, and beyond. Through these activities, the museum recognizes its paramount role of public service, and enriches the lives of diverse individuals by fostering an informed appreciation and understanding of the visual arts and their relationship to the world in which we live.
For more information and to request images, please contact:
Loring Mortensen
336.256.1451
[email protected]
Image above:
Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962, film still (detail).
Copyright: New Yorker Films
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