Spring focuses on a series of large-scale images derived from Kodachrome slides of my mother. In this series, I revisit images and memories of my childhood, exploring the difference between the surviving photographs and my own reminiscences. I look at the past from today’s perspective and develop a project that is abstract and philosophical while at the same time profoundly personal.

I am fascinated by the concepts of time and change: the stains or cleansing that time imposes on images, on memory, and on the human self. I turn my images into artworks that also become metaphors of time’s impact on matter. They are monuments to loss, but also to optimism. The title of the exhibition can be read as a reference to when the original images were taken and when the exhibition takes place. It speaks of the possibility for change and rebirth.