Reminiscences (2012 )

Ellen Nunes

Single-channel video installation

Dimensions variable

Reminiscences features looped documentary footage, three photographs, and disassembled structural elements. These visual components depict a precarious structure inherently unstable, built from found site materials and installed within a recently imploded Campinas bus station—a site now open for real estate speculation.

The installation revolved around the re-enactment of the collapse of the structure, exploring three figures of oblivion: memory, oblivion, and return—in a direct reference to Italo Calvino's meditations of these themes in the novel Invisible Cities.

Just as Marco Polo's descriptions of how cities shift with his perspective, the installation suggests return is never a simple re-tracing of steps. Instead, it's a complex process permeated by what's been remembered and lost, challenging linear notions of time and urban transformation. The work invites viewers to consider how the past, even when physically erased, continually reshapes a site's present and future.

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