EXHIBITION
"Memory is never stable. It moves, it breathes, it mutates depending on the moment we return to it. What interests me is not memory as documentation but memory as a living thing." - Nhu Xuan Hua
Inspired by the current exhibition Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire, this workshop invited students to explore how photographs can hold memory and meaning. Led by artist Natalie Mitchell, the session introduced ways of working that centred interpretation and personal perspective.
Students encountered works in the exhibition presented as altar-like displays. Through discussion and making, they built small-scale “scenes” using colour, objects and personal references, creating spaces to photograph, rework and reinterpret that told a story about who they were.
Working with ideas of staging, framing and abstraction, students considered how images are constructed - what is included, what is left out, and how meaning can shift through perspective. Drawing on Hua’s approach to reconstructing memory, the workshop encouraged students to think about how they would like to represent themselves.
