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Unsettled Nostalgia, Mohamed Hafez 2016

Hafez is a Syrian artist who was raided in Saudi Arabia and now he is an architect based in USA.

He uses uses plaster, rigid foam, paint and found objects to create three dimensional architectural streetscapes, installations and wall murals of his native Syria that are deeply personal, striking and surreal.

Maker’s view:

Responding to the atrocities of the Syrian war, much of his work draws parallels between the heavy military presence in the Middle East and the demolished lives and infrastructure beneath that presence.

Hafez is deeply interested in a cross-disciplinary exploration of street art and realistic (yet ironic) sculptural representation. He purposefully draws a contrast between the scenes he creates and the messages contained in them.

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Body by Antony Gormeley, 2009

‘The time of the work is the time of its arising. The space of the work is the given of the sheet taken as a frame on infinity..”

These drawings break the edge and make an evocation of presence through a density in a fugitive field. The works attempt to render the body as a field and to feel the body not as a knowable object, but as a subjective space of becoming.

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(Hi)stories Uncovered, Ali Fergurson 2016.

Ali is an artist who is utterly amazed by transforming stories about ordinary people into delicately pieced and hand stitched fragments of old garments, handwritten letters, haberdashery items and other vintage elements. She believes that fabric captures and holds memory, and a simply old piece of clothing can tell a lot of stories about the wearer.

For me this concept gracefully illustrates how emotions create your own marks.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American drama film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry.

It is a thought-provoking fiction and romance film that posits the question: Given the chance, would you erase the memories of someone that you had once loved?

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The Museum of heartbroken relationships, Croatia 2006

“The museum is a chance for everyone to do something about the feelings of loss and loneliness – to be creative in order to recover from that pain...” Communications Manager Marija Vladusic said of The Museum of Broken Relationships.

This museum was conceived by Drazen Grubisic and Olinka Vistica who had been a couple and had broken up. For the sake of their relationship, they collected all tokens of love and created a museum where later on other people joined to share sentimental pieces of their memory and vulnerability.

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'Fragment of Long term-Memory', Japanese artist Yuichi Ikehata, 2017

Ikehata's artful series ‘Fragment of Long-Term Memory’, is surreal as a dream. This visionary artist and sculptor dives into the fragmentary nature of our memory.

Building sculptures forms of human features made of wire, clay and paper, Ikehata then digitally adds realistic parts, such as skin, eyes, hair and nails. The artist says:

Maker’s view:

“Many parts of our memories… are often forgotten, or difficult to recall. I retrieve those fragmented moments and reconstruct them as surreal images. I gather these misplaced memories from certain parts of our reality, and together they create a non-linear story, resonating with each other in my photographs.”

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'Broken' - George Triggs, 2010

George Triggs pronounced "Creating sculpture is trying to express emotion at the core of our existence. Our bodies are vessels responding and interacting with the world through our senses. We store emotional information throughout our person, from the obvious body language to subtle muscle tensions and stress lines. This is our way of experiencing life with the human form used as a language to the soul."

The concept of this perplexing artwork is mind-blowing. The more the "man" tries to pick the pieces of "him" the more "he" breaks into even more pieces...and this made me realize how we humans spend so much time trying to fix what has been broken, fearing change.

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Sketchbook- Pathway stage work, initial idea Kyra Bermejo. February 2010.

Kyra Bermejo is a London based designer who is fascinated by the art of storytelling, she goes for drawings and paintings that supports her art to create captivating stories that speaks from the soul.

Maker’s view:

The idea of this sketchbook is to bring humanity back to the essence of the 'fingerprint'. We touch things every day, a coffee cup, a handshake, or a computer keyboard, without even realize that we are leaving a unique signature- our fingerprints.

This work evolves the notion of our identification, it does not change no matter the circumstances, it will carry our story in this journey called life.

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White Ferrari, Frank Ocean 2016

Frank Ocean's nostalgic “White Ferrari,” produced by Om’Mas Keith, Jon Brion, and Frank himself, is all about that uncontrollable chasing for peace in love. White represents innocence, purity and Ferrari is the metaphor for all the racing flow of our hormones while young in love.

“There were 50 versions of ‘White Ferrari,’” Frank Ocean told The New York Times in 2016. “I have a 15-year-old little brother, and he heard one of the versions, and he’s like, ‘You gotta put that one out, that’s the one.’ And I was like, ‘Naw, that’s not the version,’ because it didn’t give me peace yet.” 

‘White Ferrari’ represents a living memory for me.

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Portraits Painted on Film Negatives by Nick Gentry, October 2014

British artist Nick Gentry creates series of portraits by painting on cut film negatives, part of an effort to repurpose obsolete media—he’s widely known for his paintings on floppy disks—which he uses as a backdrop for his portraiture. These art pieces were part of a show titled Synthethic Dreams at Robert Fontaine Gallery.