Artefact

@mered.th_h

Meredith Hall is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land. Her practice investigates childhood memory and nostalgia through video and installation works, using tape recordings from her own childhood as a source material. She examines the nature of mediated memories from photos and videos, questioning what it means to remember within an age where actual and mediated memories have become inseparable. Her video works use the source material’s ‘objectivity’ as a basis to augment; fragmenting and obscuring the footage to question its authority. In her most recent series, she uses the screen as a mediating device, filtering the footage through layers of glass and lcd screens which blur, refract and conceal the footage. The mechanism of the screen acts as a lens through which the source video is viewed, echoing memory’s tendency to skew objectivity of experience.
Her work reflects on the nostalgic tendency to idealise and form cohesive narratives about childhood, fragmenting and corrupting the source footage to disrupt the logic through which we understand our past.

View the work: Building 24 Level 2, Rayner Hoff Project Space