Statement:

In continuation of the exploration that began with “Absence,” this collection reflects on what remains after absence. If in “Absence” we encountered the concept of non-existence, here we are confronted with transformed forms of presence.

Time does not only alter what exists, but also what once was. The form that remains in memory is never the original one; we remember things, but not as they were, rather as our minds are capable of or prefer to recall them.

Decay, destruction, and transformation are inevitable, not only in matter but also in memory, as Paul Ricoeur writes: “Remembering is always tainted by reconstruction; we construct memory just as we construct truth.

” What is reflected in these works are the remnants of crumbled meanings—words without homes, detached from sentences that no longer come to mind, now finding new meanings in their displacement.