Anna Guillory

Repository is an exploration and examination of my personal camera roll as an image bank and memory artifact. In noticing my personal camera roll spans a timeframe of five years, questions around the permanence of its collection began to surface, especially in thinking about what would eventually happen to this intimate digital archive and how it has affected my relationship to the topic of memory. These works are a translation of select photos from my camera roll to other substrates, and away from the digital space. Through processes of manipulation in drawing, painting, collage, and laser cutting their translations challenge the assumption that. As well, through these processes, the integrity of the image moves even further from its actual representation, but a new layer of meaning and interpretation is afforded to each one, and as they exist together. Sprinkled throughout the installation’s larger parts is a visual representation of the 3600 MB of data the photos on my smartphone occupy through confetti-like squares, giving the viewer another way to absorb the space that digital information takes up - a space that is often experienced as hidden or ethereal. The reflection of these squares in the scattered picture frames they accumulate against is also a nod toward the future of this kind of personal archiving, that more and more data will amalgamate in such a way.

Installation photos by Drew Nikonowicz 2024