Every time I
think of you
2025 |FOUND FOOTAGE (SUPER 8 FILM, 8MM FILM, AND VHS VIDEOS) |
HD VIDEOS | 00:15 SECONDS |
April 4 - May 2, 2025 PRESENTED BY ZAZ CORNER “IN BETWEEN” at
10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
Everytime I Think of You is a series of video works that interrogates memory as both narrative construct and material artifact, at once performance and object.
The act of remembering is understood here as a productive process rather than a passive retrieval. Memory objects—films, photographs, recordings—are not inert repositories of the past but active mediators that continually generate perception. They initiate an ongoing rewriting, where each re-encounter displaces and reconfigures meaning. In this sense, memory objects operate simultaneously as cultural products and as mutable sites of interpretation, their significance never fixed but always contingent upon the present moment of viewing.
Emerging from an extensive archive of anonymous narratives collected by the artist over many years—including Super 8 and 8mm reels, family albums, and postcards—the series examines these materials as an open-ended constellation of experience.
By situating these fragments within a shared framework, the work highlights how ostensibly private memories may be reconstituted as collective, interchangeable, and perpetually reimagined structures of subjectivity and cultural belonging.
Through a compositional strategy that produces the impression of painting with moving images, the artist enacts a visual layering that foregrounds the performative dimension of memory. Here, the painterly gesture is not merely aesthetic but conceptual: a means of weaving past traces into the immediacy of the present. This juxtaposition underscores the notion of memory as an act of continual actualization, where the function of the past is displaced from that of historical truth to that of desire—an unstable terrain through which both individual and cultural imaginaries are ceaselessly negotiated.