BcA Photography, FAMU Prague
+420776252155
lemmoun@gmail.com
About
Memory and its unreliability fascinate me.
Many of my works begin with the question of what happens to an image after it is created: how it changes under the influence of time, technology, and new interpretations. I am interested in the existence of an image—its migration between different media and its gradual mutation as it drifts away from the original, with each transfer preserving traces of the previous one.
Memory operates in much the same way. Each time we turn to the past, we recall not the event itself, but our most recent memory of it. Memory does not preserve the past intact; it continuously reassembles it, becoming yet another link in the same recursion. I am drawn to the impossibility of returning to the past in its original form, to the erosion brought about by every act of remembering, and to the altered image that gradually takes its place.
I work across different media and processes, from historical photographic techniques to artificial intelligence. In my work, the same image often migrates from one medium to another: a digital photograph may be altered in Photoshop, printed as a cyanotype, hand-coloured, transformed into a linocut, and eventually become part of a collage or an installation. The question I ask myself again and again is: what remains when the material, the technology, the context, and the image itself have all changed?
My name is Helen Mountaniol, and I am trying to materialize fluid memory.