Jennie Moran
Visual Art Practice
     
(Personal Effects)
HOSPITAL!
Notice them as they pass by and remember them when they are gone
How can can the individuals (staff, guests, visitors) who occupy this hospital ward effect the space? 'miniscule, technical procedures acting on and with details'
Michel de Certeau
Silent observer
Gentle, intimate reappropriation
of organised space
These relics to be excavated with great care in odrer that they might be preserved
Invisible made visible
Pursuing hidden narratives, invisible layers of history, energy, memory
Allow these hidden layers of history to be seen in hospital ward
Strange Archeology
search for fragments,
shards of narratives,
obscured poetic detials of lives,
componants of memories
Use hospital infrastructure as medium
information gathered to be placed upon
patients bed linen
'And I forgot the element of chance introduced by circumstances,
calm or haste, sun or cold, dawn or dusk,
the taste of strawberries or abandonment,
the half understood message, the front page of newspapers,
the voice on the telephone, the most anodyne conversation,
the most anonymous man or woman,
everything that speaks, makes noise,
passe us by, touches us lightly, meets us head on'
Jacques Sojcher, LaDemarche poetique, 1976
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