Reconfigurations series

Reconfigurations refer to reconfiguring memory. According to the psychologist Julia Shaw, memory is a network of cells that is constantly reconfigured. Every time we remember or imagine something that happened, new connections are generated. In this sense the mind is manipulable and you can implant all kinds of memories, even false ones.

So I wanted to do this exercise of constant imagination to be able to record the missing memories of my childhood with my father, specifically in the first house where we live.

Gaston Bachelard in his book "The Poetics of Space" talks about the concept of home. He says that the house is our first universe. Because when we are born, life starts locked up, protected from everything external, the house is our corner of the world. It is the non-self that protects the self. In some way it complements us.

I believe that in trying to build these memories, I also end up building me a house, a mental refuge, a fortress. Each piece represents one specific memory.