Vol. 16 No. 1 (2021): Memory and Oblivion: The Art and Reconstruction of the Subject
Memory as a device for decoding, storing and retrieving information through repetition can cause so much pain that it summons oblivion to re-signify, give space and discard what “does not work.” However, sometimes it sneaks in when we want to recall a memory that is fading and we manage to recover it, already distorted. Memory and oblivion operate dialectically in a machinery that helps us to constantly re-signify, reconstitute and rebuild ourselves in order to recover from suffering in the form of a gesture to be consumed by another, to be heard, read, and contemplated. Someone whose soul can reflect our own.
