ARTS AND MEMORIES
I offer you a collection of episodes that invite you to explore all forms of art, highlighting various artistic movements and iconic creators. This series of episodes is dedicated to the theme of personal and collective memory, memories and forgetting, exploring how these fundamental notions are reflected through the works of renowned and forgotten artists.
Each episode takes us on a journey through time and artistic expressions to understand how artists have captured, interpreted, and transmitted these essential aspects of the human experience. From painting to music, from literature to sculpture, this collection invites you into the world of art to understand its deep connection to memory, offering an enriching reflection on how artists have explored these timeless themes over the centuries.
Discover the episodes of this sound collection
Nobody will talk about us, a photographic series by Mouna Karray
For this first episode of the collection, let's discover together the photographic series entitled 'Nobody will talk about us' by Mouna Karray, a work produced between 2012 and 2015 in the heart of the desert in southern Tunisia.
What message does the photographer seek to convey? What link does she establish with memory? How are the notions of remembrance and forgetting manifested through her photographs?
This series by Mouna Karray goes far beyond simple visual snapshots. It provokes a profound reflection on our relationship with the past, on the transmission of history and the preservation of memories. The desert landscapes captured in these photographs seem frozen in time, like silent witnesses of forgotten or neglected memories.
Photography, for Mouna Karray, is a language in its own right, a way of telling stories, communicating ideas and immortalizing palpable emotions through images. Each shot offers a unique vision and invites the viewer to immerse their gaze in a visual story, to decipher the codes and feel the emotions transmitted by these images frozen in time.
At the heart of each photograph, the subtle play between memory and forgetting unfolds. The captured images seem both timeless and laden with buried memories, evoking moments past while leaving room for the viewer's personal interpretation. Thus, the gaze cast upon these images becomes the embodiment of time itself, awakening buried stories and offering a new perspective on collective memory.
The Persistence of Memory, a painting by Salvador Dali
In this episode, discover Salvador Dali's iconic work, The Persistence of Memory , commonly known as " The Soft Watches ", to explore its depths.
How does this duality between the transience of time and the permanence of memory illustrate the latter's capacity to freeze the flow of time?
This iconic painting by Dali is a striking representation of the relativity of time. The soft watches, evoking temporal flexibility, symbolize the changing and subjective nature of time. Yet at the heart of this fluidity, The Persistence of Memory reveals a fascinating paradox: despite the perception of the rapid passage of time, memory persists, freezing specific moments in our minds.
The fascinating and peculiar image of this painting stimulates the viewer's eye, prompting him to quickly scan these distorted clocks, thus expressing the transience and instability of time.
The very title of the work, The Persistence of Memory, evokes opposing notions: constancy and durability. This contradiction between the immediate perception of temporal evanescence and the immutable persistence of memory underlines the power of the latter to encapsulate and preserve ephemeral moments, thus defying the linearity of time.
Thus, Salvador Dali, through this emblematic work, explores the astonishing capacity of memory to transcend temporal volatility by preserving fragments of the past, thus offering a poetic and complex vision of our relationship to temporality and memory.