Nothing disappears, everything transforms – Nic nie ginie, wszystko się zmienia
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This work explores the relationship between memory, identity and material culture within the framework of nostalgia. Using textile techniques, I investigate how we remember and how memory often dances between reality and fiction – straddling the concrete and vague, continuously reshaped by us. My aim is to highlight how memories can endure within materials, how the things we remember can shift in form or get lost in translation, yet still carry the past within the marks left by time. The method is designed as an artistic search for how the domestic materials and objects found in my childhood home in Poland can exist in a new shape and context. Where the longing for the past, intertwined with the fear of loss, becomes a driving force in my artistic process. The study moves through spectrums; between photographic realism and abstractionism, preservation and dissolution, functionality and symbolism – where the making of the objects themselves and the exploration of how they can be worked with in a room plays a major role.
In this project I work with my own childhood memories, however I reflect and hope to highlight the difference between the personal and collective memory where the traces of political, religious and historical narratives are included.
The thesis includes theoretical perspectives from Svetlana Boym’s duality of restorative and reflective nostalgia, as well as insights from Caroline Slotte and Daniel Miller to contextualize the role of memory in material objects. Ultimately, this work emphasizes the power of everyday objects as vessels of history, emotion, and cultural identity, where they can preserve fragments of the past in a world of constant change.
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