R+R+R
Less Regain 
Remember + Repeat + Rework
The 2015 Remember Repeat Rework series of photographs showed the amazement and fear caused by uncertainty. Anthropomorphic statues discovered in Indonesia by Dutch settlers are compared visually to original 1930s and 1940s photographs of people suffering from amnesia. The perplexed expressions could be linked to the so-called ‘mad travellers’ and to the reality of transitional mental illnesses. Albert Dadas, from the French region of Bordeaux, was the first traveller diagnosed with dromomania or ‘wanderlust’, a neurotic obsessive tendency to walk without a precise destination that reached its peak between 1887 and 1909.
The works were realized thanks to collaboration with the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam, the Volkenkunde Museum of Leiden and a private collector.
- Archive documentation: Statues, temples and ornamental objects from Java "Antiquities of Java, by order of the Ned Indische" government, under the supervision of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences"
West Javanese, Indo-Javanese, October 1863 - April 1864
Cirebon, (Tjpakoe), Jawa (Indonesia)
- Amnesia Victims: this series of original photographs come from a private collection and portray people in a state of amnesia and memory loss
R+R+R
Less Regain
Remember + Repeat + Rework
The 2015 Remember Repeat Rework series of photographs showed the amazement and fear caused by uncertainty. Anthropomorphic statues discovered in Indonesia by Dutch settlers are compared visually to original 1930s and 1940s photographs of people suffering from amnesia. The perplexed expressions could be linked to the so-called ‘mad travellers’ and to the reality of transitional mental illnesses. Albert Dadas, from the French region of Bordeaux, was the first traveller diagnosed with dromomania or ‘wanderlust’, a neurotic obsessive tendency to walk without a precise destination that reached its peak between 1887 and 1909.
The works were realized thanks to collaboration with the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam, the Volkenkunde Museum of Leiden and a private collector.
- Archive documentation: Statues, temples and ornamental objects from Java "Antiquities of Java, by order of the Ned Indische" government, under the supervision of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences"
West Javanese, Indo-Javanese, October 1863 - April 1864
Cirebon, (Tjpakoe), Jawa (Indonesia)
- Amnesia Victims: this series of original photographs come from a private collection and portray people in a state of amnesia and memory loss
