Preserving, 2016, video (7h:46m:44s), performance, drawings 29,7 x 21 cm
I spent all day with a camera on my head – wanted to see, as the days go by, what will be remembered. Electronic, digital devices are recorded everything. The slightest movement will be properly recorded. Using them there is no need to remember lot of information, different numbers and dates. Every week from that recording day, I made a drawing from my memory without previously checking the drawing or video. Then, after a month, I made every month new drawing. Until completely forgotten content of that day. It will remain just a memory of the day which was spent with the camera. Scientists have discovered that the human memory is not only imperfect, but variable. Psychologists Christopher F. Chabris and Daniel J. Simons wrote in a New York Times article from 2014, “We get a lot of details right, but when our memories change, we only hear the most recent version of the message, and we may assume that what we believe now is what we always believed.” Therefore, details and the flow of the event can be drastically changed.
By looking through the viewpoint (perspective) of a young woman, it could be seen what kind of conditions she has, what are implanted expectations of what she should do and, at the end, what will she remember.
