Keeley Lash

Absent Place, Present Space

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We engage in a switching of consciousness between an internal space and the external one that is the physical world. This conceptual interest emerged during my depression. Being in a continuous state of trying to escape one for the other revealed to me that we occupy both spaces at once, each affecting the other. 

These empty places are us. They allow for our minds and memories to populate them with imagined histories or projected memories.These projections can transform present places into triggers or sites of avoidance. This led me to explore censorship and a fragmenting of ones perception of space, impacting on how we navigate ourselves in relation to where and when we exist.

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Still from film
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Left: Digital photographs mounted on wood panel // Right: Hanging plank. One side black, other side mounted photographic print.
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Hanging plank. One side black, other side mounted photographic print.
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Steel sheet naturally weathered

We are never independent from the past. The resonance of painful experiences follows us into new places, affecting our perception of it and the objects it contains. Simultaneously, the world activates a wandering of the mind. For me this demanded an exploration of how the everyday exists and behaves to represent something about us, psychologically. Also, of how temporality is expressed in the absence of linearity. 

 
Played with the sound work split between two speakers positioned on opposite sides of the room.

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