Ellen Fleig Gracia

It is in becoming adult, that this wonder arose, a wonder that I remember from childhood, but don’t quite remember how it went.

Re-image-ining (a combination of making new images and imagining again) happens when i skim through family footage, it happens when my mother brushes my hair, when playing a clapping game. It is searching for what’s between a moment and an image. I trace the generational storylines of dislocation, separation, segmentation of selves that are implied in my body. Some are moving in the now, some are frozen in the archives of the past. A process of revisiting serves as a flashlight to navigate in my subconscious. I aim to create a back and forth in time, stretching, inventing a bit more time to look closer.

I explore imagery & gesture through video, photographic, and sculptural works, which stretch the properties of space and time of personal stories and particularities, inheritance, family rituals, and childhood games. Different approaches of staging memory highlight repetition in daily sceneries and the domestic.

This page was last updated on June 19, 2024