The Memory Game

Information and Memory

The information overload that floods our daily life is not something new. For years before the internet, the image torrent from television already filled our minds. All media repeatedly had broadcasted the most relevant images, by no coincidence the most shocking ones, helping to glue them into our memory.

However, memory is far from a mechanical machine capable of recording and retrieving information and experiences. On the opposite, memory is a slippery and swampy terrain from which forgotten reminiscences found their way out. On the other hand, we can not extract a piece of important information that we thought was accessible.

Once the memory is a field of uncertainties from which fables are born, the issue is no longer to ensure the capacity for fixing and retrieving information, but how to unite the fragments that come out of it. Poetic and magical moments of intimacy coexist in memory, in the same way as significant public events. The narratives brought by memory can change the way we live, as well as the way we understand the world.

Technical specifications

The Memory Game was created by Doris Kosminsky in 2018. It comprises two acrylic canvases and a looping video. In the video, you can see the moment of the fatal accident that killed the F1 race pilot, Ayrton Senna, in May 1994. The two canvases show faded images from the accident. The greyish colors in the paintings intend to reinforce the vanished status of memory, either historical or personal.

The Memory Game was exhibited at Centro Cultural Light Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, from November 14th to December 13, 2019.