Three-channel 35mm Film, 120 slides, 25 min, 2014 - 2016.
We take pictures so we can forget. We see decades of internment, nationalism, and domesticity. Projections transform into fantasy, ruminating in the unfamiliar. To forget is the only way to remember.
Author
Heather M. O’Brien is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. She works in film/video, photography, and installation to build encounters with familial archives, constructs of nationhood, and the illusion of accurate memory. Heather previously was an assistant professor in the department of fine arts and art history at the American University of Beirut.
