Caitlin McCormack’s "Mnemosyne" explores the mind’s attempt to reconstruct fragile remnants of memories before they are tainted. Within this realm, McCormack marries found threads to existing pieces, embracing the melancholy of time overlapping memory in her delicate play of intersecting loops.
Mnemosyne’s sense of fragility underscores a precious attempt to preserve that which has fallen into obscura – to present a persistence of memory, as new life is stitched together in the parameters of anamnesis where memories live as beautiful fabrications that belie a beginning and beg off an end. There exists a haunting calm within the delicate wisps trying desperately to be more than retired graces of things they never were.
It is the second installment in a cycle of exhibitions; an examination of the consequences of my practices, as they pertain to the scrutiny of memory's authenticity. I am drawn towards a vacuous well of recollection, in which the fibers connecting a network of truths and fabrications fade in and out of darkness, at the bottom of which resides a glimpse of memory's mass extinction. –Caitlin McCormack
Mnemosyne: Works by Caitlin McCormack
Paradigm Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
On view: October 23 – December 12, 2015
Opening reception: Friday, October 23, 2015 • 5:30pm – 10:00pm
