Unforgetting what I meant, 2024

aluminum sheet with scratched graphics, four heliogravures, magnets

The work reflects on memory and its relationship to photographic media. It focuses on situations in which it may be more meaningful not to take a photograph, but to preserve an experience internally.
At its core lies the idea that translating memory into drawing allows for a more flexible hierarchy of what truly mattered in a given moment. Unlike drawing, photography often records everything with equal weight, flattening this hierarchy.
At a time when visual archives carry both political and personal significance, the work addresses the tension between the urge to document and the conscious refusal of photography. It engages with the conditions of image production shaped by censorship, as well as the distortions that emerge through constant circulation and sharing.
Heliogravure is used as a key technique, allowing images to gradually dissolve and blur, echoing the fading of memory. This is complemented by graphic compositions on aluminum plates, which suggest the transformation of the past into simplified visual forms.