“Suburban Memory”
Saskia Moore and Polly Stanton
25 Nov → 17 Dec 2011
Polly Stanton & Saskia Moore ’Suburban Memory’ 2011, Installation view: West Space, Bourke Street Mall, 2011. Photography by Christo Crocker
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it.
For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Saskia Moore and Polly Stanton's Suburban Memory aims to demonstrate the interior as not possessing a static geographical location but aims to expresses its transient nature – how it is never as we remember but always in a state of transformation. A collection of memory traces which are not, and perhaps never were, really present.
Saskia Moore is an award winning sound & visual artist graduate of RMIT Masters Fine Arts. She is currently artist in residence with Sound & Music Embedded: Apartment House, London.
Polly Stanton is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist whose practice uses the temporal mediums of video and sound to investigate cinema’s power to shape and reflect human experiences of place, environment and memory.