The person recognisable as me

Sublimation print on velvet, text

2021

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The person recognisable as me is a digital reconstruction of a visual memory, using only images found via google searches. The image depicts a scene witnessed through a psychoanalyst’s window during a conversation in which, overly conscious of therapy cliches, all attempts at authentic expression felt like a disingenuous performance.

 

An accompanying text describes the encounter with the psychoanalyst, and explores how linguistic rules and aesthetic choices can begin to destabilise memory and identity.

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The title is taken from a short story by Clare Sestanovich called 'Old Hope'. 

Exhibition view: The Naming of Things, Castlefield Gallery, 2021

Images courtesy of Jules Lister