FUTURE MEMORY explores how historical trauma continues to exist through images, memory, and fragmentation. The series is centered around an enlarged single photograph of a nuclear reactor container from the 1950s in the United States, which is translated into fragmented paintings.
The original image is divided into multiple smaller works, each depicting an isolated detail of the larger whole. This process reflects the splitting of atoms in nuclear reactions, but also the way historical events disperse through time, continuing to influence contemporary reality long after their origin.
The fragmented structure of the series mirrors the persistence of collective trauma. Like radioactive fallout, the effects of war and nuclear catastrophe spread invisibly across generations and geographies. The paintings themselves behave similarly: separated from the original composition, the fragments begin to exist independently, carrying traces of their source while gradually losing their complete context.
As information is passed from one person to another, memory becomes distorted through interpretation, omission, and retelling. FUTURE MEMORY examines the unstable relationship between factual documentation and lived recollection. Neither the image itself nor the stories surrounding it can fully guarantee truth.
