Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten is an ongoing series in which cross-stitch embroidery has been sewn directly into diaristic family and travel photographs drawn from across my life. The images are broken down and reformed through the embroidery into a hand-sewn pixel structure. As areas of the image are concealed by the embroidery, small, seemingly trivial details surface while the broader context dissolves.
The work refers to the tension between lived experience and photographic representation and considers photography’s tendency to displace memory rather than to preserve it. The work also considers the ways in which photographs convert personal history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past. By borrowing the visual language of digital imaging within an analog process, a connection is made between forgetting and file corruption which leads to degraded files and lost data. The tactility of the pieces are a response to the current cultural moment in which photographs increasingly exist as digital files held in devices rather than physical objects held in one’s hand.
Artist Bios
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Diane Meyer
Diane Meyer is an artist currently living in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from UC San Diego. Her work explores the physicality of photographs and has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Morgan Library; and the Hood Museum. She is represented by Galerie Sit Down, Paris.
Organizations
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
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Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten
Featuring: Diane Meyer
Locations
ON VIEW AT: #21
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