Through the Looking Glass
photograph on board
71.8 x 108.9
2006-26
@Miranda Lopatkin
Photo: Bridgeman images
Miranda Lopatkin has observed: 'Through photographic images, I have been exploring the realm of memory where facts fade and distort, the familiar becomes unfamiliar and domestic environments can seem unhomely....
Miranda Lopatkin has observed: 'Through photographic images, I have been exploring the realm of memory where facts fade and distort, the familiar becomes unfamiliar and domestic environments can seem unhomely. My images are probably also a result of a sense of personal history to which I am linked, particularly in relation to my Eastern European Jewish lineage and the implications and weight the Holocaust still seems to carry for me. Blurring the identities and distinctions between two images enhances the feeling that we can disappear although not completely whilst we are alive. The danger is that people fade and eventually physically disappear, important historical events such as the atrocities of the Holocaust can fade. In light of this, one of my aims is in part, to reflect small mediated memories. These images are not always directly linked to the past but always there is a sense of time moving on.'
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