Frozen Memory, 2002, video art, 4' 00"
Frozen Memory
video art in cooperation with Abdel-Ghany Kenawy
In "Frozen Memory," I explore important aspects in our social
life: birth, marriage, and death. All are turning points,
gates leading into unexplored lands.
I don’t dwell on the societal trappings of birth, marriage,
and death. I look, instead, at the hidden sentiments that
are attached to them, the sentiments that lie deep within
man’s inner self or being, using my memory as my guide. Receptacle
of all things true and twisted, past and evolving, memory
keeps its own, parallel track of life. It tackles what the
days and years bring, resonates with everything that we sense
and experience. Its strong presence overpowers and pre-empts,
leading me to question ‘shall I die after my lifetime or during
it?’
In Frozen Memory, I grapple with the subject of the isolation
or alienation experienced by a person while he is living within
a society; I look at how each of us is a mechanical part in
society’s churning wheel, a wheel that turns and turns, never
stopping.
- Amal Kenawy
Personal Statement
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