Recollecting Memories (2016)
Recollection is something which existed and happened in the past, and became a part of people’s life memory. With its documentative ability, photography could record what is abstract into something real. Photography was born to hunt objectivity through the ability to picture visual reality. The practice of photography is also a gateway to see and delve into many things.
The artist uses photo archives which are located in Yogyakarta as a form of visual recollection from the subjcts which would be used as the reference to be reconstructed with staged photography method. This method is conducted by arranging and managing the subject, photography techniques as well as the plot of the narrative in order to show the changes which had occured.
Through the photography practice which the artist used, the subjects were invited to reminisce by recollecting their memories. Undirectly, the writer asked the subjects to take more care in keeping and preserving their photo archives.
