curatorial text: Maria Andrikopoulou, Nelly PalaiogianniThe accumulation of memory, through evidence of the past,constitutes smaller or larger archives of childhood, everyday -life and history, constantly open to interpretation. Basements,the most common places of piling such evidence, turn into databasesstoring countless versions of how events took place.
Operation Mincemeat Asides serves as a friendly reminderof the fact that the neat juxtaposition of historical events doesnot guarantee objectivity. Every new research and interpretationof historical files can produce a new version of the events.William Martin, Pam, Patricia Trehearne and Tom, come to lifeand die each time someone tells their story. In the meantime,they unravel blurry aspects of History.In personal archive, elements of everyday life recomposeand create enigmatic, quasi - cinematic, sequences, notspecifically tied to time and space. Documents stand still, inpiles, transformed into flip books that autonomously triggerdiverse synapses in those who come across them.Among them, one may notice the wounded teasing creaturesthat try to draw us towards a long-forgotten childhood. Westand before them, sometimes nostalgically, as if staring at atoy store window, and sometimes as if staring at disfigured,monstrous objects after their prolonged isolation in the basement.Next to them, items that were once ‘out of order’ are repurposedand constructed into sculptures of matter anddecay, carrying the burden of an emotional journal. Wobblydays routines, with dangerous inclinations suggesting afall off the ‘shelf,’ challenge not only personal but also ontologicalconventions.Conjuring an archive is similar to an argument from authority,as each of us builds our solid version of events based onpersonal history. It intertwines with a controversial narrative,creating blurry transitions to truth and lie. The unintentionalmisleads, in the passage from childhood to adulthood and historicity,shape the lens through which we observe.
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