Thesis

A collection to help me figure out my bfa thesis

Penn

Questions to guide my thesis

What are some artists that I really enjoy visually?

Who are some artists that have also made work about memory?

Artists to Research (work related to memory)

Regina José Galindo (Guatemala)

Teresa Margolles (Mexico)

Pedro Reyes (Mexico)

Sara Uribe (México)

Doris Salcedo (Colombia)

Erika Diettes (Colombia)

Oscar Muñoz (Colombia)

Jesús Abad Colorado (Colombia)

Cecilia Vicuña (Chile)

Ana Mendieta (Cuba)

Francisco Souto (Venezuela)

Christian Boltanski – Uses photographs, personal belongings, and installation to evoke collective and individual memory, absence, and loss.
On Kawara – His "Today" series and telegram works mark time and memory through repetition and documentation of lived moments.
Sophie Calle – Uses text, photography, and personal narrative to explore intimacy, memory, and the tension between truth and fiction.
Annette Messager – Uses fragmented objects, embroidery, and assemblage to explore memory, identity, and fragility.
Tacita Dean – Explores nostalgia and analog film as a medium of imperfect memory.
Nan Goldin – Her photographic work documents personal relationships and fleeting moments, often with nostalgia and raw intimacy.
Joan Fontcuberta – Explores the unreliability of photographs as documents of memory, creating fabricated archives.
Rachel Whiteread – Her casts of negative spaces (chairs, houses, interiors) preserve the “memory” of absence and lived experience.
Doris Salcedo – Memory of trauma, history, and human connection through sculptural absence and material traces.
William Kentridge – Animation, drawing, and erasure tied to history, forgetting, and memory’s instability.
Chiharu Shiota – Large thread installations that interweave personal objects and memory as interconnected networks.

Anna Radecka

Philosophers / Theorists on Memory & Time

Henri Bergson – Matter and Memory; distinguishes between mechanical recall and lived, fluid memory; emphasizes duration (la durée).
Maurice Halbwachs – Introduced the concept of collective memory (how memory is socially framed and maintained).
Paul Ricoeur – Memory, History, Forgetting; examines memory’s

I love ana mendieta

Artist statement 1-14-25

Combining mediums has always been of great interest to me. Experimentation to see how different mediums can interact and work together visually. In my practice I am interested in how illustration, printmaking, and embroidery, and animation/experimental film can work together to convey visual narrative and interesting themes.

idea for thesis

what if its a large book on a pedestal and then a sort of tent around it made of cyanotyped collaged fabric

what is the content of the book what is the content of the cyanotyped fabric and how do they relate

Thoughts about fabricated memory / thesis stream of consciousness

Ok so I keep thinking about medium. I want to combine printmaking and illustration. I want to do something with memory.

There’s a video on fabricated memory from views from a bridge, I think I should do research on how memory works. Because in this video this guy talks about how we