Description: “Remember to Forget” is an ongoing project by Faris Kassim archiving film images taken in the course of the past 10 years (2010-).
“For those of us who cherish our memories and like to think they are an accurate record of our history, the idea that memory is fundamentally malleable is more than a little disturbing.” Karim Nader If one stands on a certain present that is formed in its relation to the past, and if memories are intangible traces of that past, it becomes a bit more obvious why the malleability of memory has to be essentially disturbing. Such malleability points to that the past, which has undeniably been experienced, becom
The malleability of memories not only affect the past, but also one’s present subjectivity as the present is shaped in a continuum of that very oscillating past.
“Remember to Forget” is an ongoing project by Faris Kassim , archiving film slides taken in the course of the past 10 years (2010-). As demonstrated, the images are blurred to the point where objects scattered in the frame are completely indistinguishable. This indistinguishability comes from the process of drastic dimensional downsizing. During this process, the image sheds everything to fit the new small canvas, except for the data perceived essential by the algorithm. Once the image is blown back up into