The Measures of Memory, Cesarco’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, flirts with the possibilities of memory as both the object and instrument of our desires. The exhibition puts in relation different methodologies of documenting, describing, and accounting for the passage of time and the forms used to recall it. As is characteristic of Cesarco’s practice, the exhibition carries a rather romantic and melancholic tone and furthers his exploration of notions of personal narrative, style, aging, influence and inheritance. The Measures of Memory includes the following works:
Der Familienroman (The Family Novel), 2017. Four framed archival ink-jet prints, 102 x 134 cm each. A photographic re-reading of the artist’s father’s Spanish edition of The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud. Cesarco simultaneously reads Freud through the lens of autobiography and looks at his father’s underlining and notations of Freud’s texts as a script (both descriptive and predictive) to his own family history and dynamics.
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