Born in 70s Romania, having lived in the UK for the past 20 years, the duality of Andreea’s past and cultural heritage has always been a source of reflection and exploration. Andreea has an MA in Photography and a BSc in Philosophy and is a keen writer of fiction and memoir.
For The Fabric of Memory Andreea traveled back to her native homeland in an attempt to rediscover and reconnect with her roots. Marcel Proust said ‘the past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object’. Andreea’s visual story explores this notion, driven by place, and is a constant dialogue between past and present, familiarity and estrangement.
New images, all produced using old family film cameras and expired period film, are interspaced, and sometimes juxtaposed with family archive images and snippets of discursive memory in a visually coherent way. Andreea creates an atemporal space where there is deliberate ambiguity about what’s past and what’s present, and where empathetic connections are made with older family members as individuals, rather than in their familial roles.
A subset of this exhibition also presents a series of images from the Tales from the Silk Factory collection – a minimalist and symbolic approach to sharing childhood stories.
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