Things that happen inside and outside of me

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Conscious and unconscious, present, transfer and recollection, blend into the existential fragments combined by Mara Palena within her projects, based on different self-investigation methods. From psychoanalysis, to sound therapy, to EMDR, the experience of the artist returns in the form of her very personal elaboration. Such an intimate sphere, however, opens up to the collective by devising immersive scenarios that empathetically welcome the observer to a large, potentially infinite mnemonic archive — with the use of AI, too.

Everything becomes a projection that escapes and reborns, incessantly.

All the archive material comes from the public collection of the Archive of the Prelinger Library, San Francisco. The work showcases a series of digital collages of technical images generated by artificial intelligence fed with screenshots of archive footage on the cultural history of the United States.

This project is the winner of the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation Photobook Contest 2024.