Marcelo Prais

Memory Lane is built from archival material: found photographs, family albums and documents, layered with newly produced images and with optical devices. Optical devices work as producers of memory, paper as its fixative, and the fusions as new readings and re-significations of what was kept. Time does not simply pass. It preserves itself, carrying within it everything that has been. There is a form of being in duration: a continuous accumulation in which the past does not disappear, but remains