LOST CODES
2014–15. Photographic series: 58 photographs (21 x 15 cm each), video film: 1’2”
The performative installation LOST CODES is carried out by people who bring an object that is tied to their identity. They move the object between two tables with eyes closed. Subsequently they are asked to carry out the movement only imagining to hold the object, re-acting the mere memory of it. The protagonists are photographed to capture this moment of creating collective gestures based on an individual memory. The work emphasizes that complex problems of migration, loss and memory cannot be understood in merely political and/or economic context, but rather by introducing the notion of nomadism. A notion by which a new form of nationality is emerging, no longer tied to places, but to objects and memories – a condition of imagination.
Image: LOST CODES, by Ibrahim Quraishi, (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
