Synopsis and credits

Ongoing project based on experimental and theoretical research that explores the relationship between memory (individual / collective) and clothing in order to translate the formal mechanisms of memory and its inevitable failure. Reminiscences of a material past [anamnese: ruin] by the mimetic evocation of a recognizable fragment - part of an iconic piece of clothing that reflects a direct connection with those who wear / see.

Fragments of an object recognized as whole. Related to the space of collective memory [a fragmentary wardrobe] that can be reconstructed by the viewer through the juxtaposition of the parts. As a "memento-mori" that make us think of death ["Remember you must die"] these objects are created to remind us of forgetting. The material - wax [highly perishable] - refers to thoughts about our own mortality [the wax melts, burns], and it is organic [it is implied an organic change inherent in our own bodies]; it interested me as a material-metaphor for memory.

Socrates in his "Phenomenology of errors" [Theaetetus] expresses the absolute necessity for the use of wax by his description of the ability to retain memories, avoiding their forgetfulness [oubli] and, at the same time, lose them again by continue forgetting, deleting them or melting them, making them fade [effacing].

Credits

Direction & Concept: Lara Torres; Photography direction: Matilde Travassos; Editing and Post-production: Mário Carvalhal; Assistance: Vitor Ramalhão