Exhibition Small Gold & Ironstone I
$125.00
ALL BUT A MEMORY
Louise Monte$3,000.00
Exhibition Artist Louise Monte
"ALL BUT A MEMORY – Artist Statement
The carbon paper in receipt books create a printed impression, a first generation copy – equivalent to a memory – used in this work to reflect on personal and collective histories.
Shop receipt books from my family’s business on the corner of King and Marmion Streets, East Fremantle (1959-1982), serve as a metaphor for what remains when memory fades. The books are stacked and standing at 145 cm tall, the height of my mother, Natalina.
Natalina worked in the local corner shop for 40 years, 23 of those as a grocer. The work contrasts two markers in time. The first is a receipt page dated 1965 - a list of groceries recollected from my childhood memories. The second, faded words on a carbonised copy, document Natalina’s memory loss captured in a geriatric medical test in 2020."
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