Time Table With Memory Holes
Sculptural Video Installation, Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven, 2016
A sculptural video installation exploring memory, erasure, and unstable historical narratives.
Time Table With Memory Holes examines how personal memory and acts of erasure shape historical understanding. The work originates from a childhood recollection of a deliberately damaged family photograph from twentieth‑century Germany: a dinner scene with men in Nazi uniforms, their emblems carefully cut out.
A digital animation, derived from an abstract figure sketched on a round beer mat, is projected onto a table punctured with holes. As the animation shifts, recognition is interrupted; only the holes and circular light forms remain constant, anchoring the work in its physical environment. The installation operates as an abstract clock, where meaning surfaces intermittently as the animation briefly suggests figures instead of patterns.
The work reveals how personal and collective narratives are reshaped, obscured, or selectively preserved. Rooted in a specific family history, it forms a conceptual foundation for my ongoing inquiry into identity, human presence, and the conditions that shape our understanding of the past.
Installation view, The Long Now, Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven (2016). Curator: Maartje Bertens.
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