Once Upon a Time (2024)

Black pen on white paper

(15 x 21 cm) x 4

Once Upon a Time (2024) shows the transmission of memory between three generations of the artist's family and is part of her long-term artistic practice, where she questions the relationship between photography, the object, the archive and memory in various ways.

Through three handwritten texts, she presents different memories of the same traumatic event - her mother's fall into a pit of quicklime. Since this happened a long time ago, when the author's mother was a child and the author was not alive, the texts present not only different interpretations of the same event, but also different distances of the writer from the original memory of the traumatic event. Memory is thus preserved over generations, but at the same time it is changed, because instead of experiencing something, we remember only the narrative of it.

A fourth, blank page adds to the work the question of interruption or repetition of the traumatic memory: will it stop with the author or will it continue at some point in the future?