The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art

The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art explores the ways we remember, forget, rewrite, and even fabricate memory. The exhibition features sculpture, photography, work on paper, installation, video, and computer-generated works by fourteen international artists, including L... Read more

The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art explores the ways we remember, forget, rewrite, and even fabricate memory. The exhibition features sculpture, photography, work on paper, installation, video, and computer-generated works by fourteen international artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Dinh Q. Lê, and Rachel Whiteread.

Family photo albums, Road Runner cartoons, the works of Shakespeare, and Barack Obama’s presidential primary campaign are just some of the subjects artists explore in AMOA’s upcoming exhibition.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by the narrative of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983): “I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.”

The Lining of Forgetting is curated by Xandra Eden and organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.