Beate Körner / Missing Memories

Did you report your memories missing when they finally disappeared?

This exhibition sheds light on what is in us more than ourselves: Both the memories we think we forgot about, and what we tell ourselves about our lives, with little consideration of reality. These two discourses may be distinct, but they are not contradictory, as our remembrance is just as much what really happened to us, as what we tell ourselves about it.
Both “truth” and “lie” persist through objects we forget to discard or we acquire and create stories about. While maintaining the tension between who we were as children, what we must/want to let go as adults, and the narratives we tell in the process of growing, the curator invites you to look upon these shreds of remembrance.
The objects you see here could refer to an event that the artist experienced, or it could be an item whose story is fabricated. This is not a path towards “self-discovery”, for the sake of “the faithful reconstitution of the past”. It is an attempt at coming to terms with the double dimension of the elusive and the deceitful in our lives. - Hanin Hannouch, curator