I am interested in the ways human memory works. Not just out of curiosity. I think memory was what helped me through the first years after immigrating to Germany in my late twenties. It helped me keep my identity. Later though, it played havoc with me when the traumatic memories which I thought I’d left behind by leaving the country began coming back. I became interested in the ambivalence of memory. Unpredictability of it. What we really remember and what we think we remember. What brings memories back.
I am interested in the ways human memory works. Not just out of curiosity. I think memory was what helped me through the first years after immigrating to Germany in my late twenties. It helped me keep my identity. Later though, it played havoc with me when the traumatic memories which I thought I’d left behind by leaving the country began coming back. I became interested in the ambivalence of memory. Unpredictability of it. What we really remember and what we think we remember. What brings memories back.