Amnesia

Sabine survived the 2016 bombing at Maalbeek metro station in Brussels. She was there, but she remembers almost nothing. Her memory of the event is fractured: fragments of sound, sensations without images, impressions that shift each time she tries to recall them. There is no stable testimony, no reliable internal picture of what happened.

Amnesia is a series of photographs generated digitally from Sabine's verbal descriptions of what she thinks she remembers. Each image is a translation of language into visual form: imprecise, unstable, haunted by the gap between what was lived and what can be recalled. The photographs do not reconstruct the event. They represent the texture of traumatic memory itself: blurred, dissolved, always on the verge of disappearing.

The series resonates with Gerhard Richter's September, in which the painter blurred photographic images of the 9/11 attacks until they became almost abstract, suspended between representation and erasure. In Amnesia, the blur is not applied to existing images. It is generated from absence. The photographs are born already fading.