Louise ORourke

Performing Art – Philadelphia

My work investigates human experience through the form of memory. As time passes, our memories have a tendency to change. Through photography, erasure, sculpture and video, I investigate the unraveling nature of memory. We unconsciously pick out certain details to remember; others linger without our permission, and others are forgotten entirely. Through this unconscious filtering, new memories are formed that may be whole or partial, false, partially true or even truer than the actual experience that they are based upon.