Olivia Rachel Kong

Hornsby Girls High School
Visions and Revisions
Collection on works

“… what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. We live in time – it holds us and moulds us … ” Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending. Our identities are shaped by our memories; however, over time these recollections become malleable, distorted and glitched. The act of remembering is a performance, a retelling of our stories and thus is vulnerable to change. In this digital age, where photographs have become synonymous with our memories, I have used the repainting of moments and the amalgamation of past and present films to symbolise how memories deteriorate over time and therefore are rewritten.

ARTEXPRESS is a joint venture of the NSW Department of Education and the Board of Studies Teaching and Educational Standards NSW, hosted by Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre.