Starting from a personal and family archive composed of more than 120 hours of video between analog and digital material, this project carried out processes with an experimental, formal and technical approach from photography and audiovisual media placing in discussion the logics, rhetorics and speeds typical of digital media that act as judges of the material of personal memory. Given the precariousness of the image –in format and capture–, it was necessary to accept the conditions of the archive through the exploration of the meaning of contemplative and poetic; this became essential to arrive at a final exposition endowed with a plastic sense that evokes feelings and memories from the audiovisual.
In Memorama against forgetting for an uncertain future, emotional and spatial links are fostered with objects, geographies and bodies represented in the archive. It was sought to make evident the fascinating symbolism in the texture, the meaning and the capture of the moving image over time and in different media. All this contributed to interweave a relationship with personal memory and memories, which commonly start from the subjective of emotions and feelings to migrate towards broader and more complex visions; but not for that reason unfinished, perhaps, transcendent.
This resonance of images and sounds between similes and disparate ones was possible thanks to the recovery, qualification and editing of the archive, which allowed generating a becoming between past and present. In addition, this helped to resignify the archive itself and its audiovisual power in the recovery and conservation of memory; a memory that seeks to establish links and connections from the particularity of each viewer.