A girl called Marta

2024

“Anemonia” refers to the feeling of nostalgia that arises when encountering certain images or music—a strange familiarity and sense of belonging, even to a time you’ve never actually lived through. This project explores how memory is not a static record of the past but a simulation, shaped by both objective facts and subjective perceptions. New insights can color old memories, just as memories themselves reshape our present. In this overwhelming world of constant images and information, finding a meaningful connection to the world—and to one’s own identity—can feel elusive. With Marta, I revisit scenes and emotions from childhood, recreating them through photographs and pairing them with fragments of text. These are not literal memories, but emotional echoes: a gesture, a light, a color. Each image becomes part of a collage—a second creation. It’s an attempt to archive not what was, but what was felt. I’m a nostalgic person myself. The farther back in time something happened, the more clearly I seem to remember it. But memory is tricky, and the tension between what we recall and what actually occurred fascinates me. In listening to each woman’s coming-of-age story, I hope to uncover shared emotional ground—an empathy that flows through both word and image.

“Anemonia”指的是当人们面对某些影像或音乐时涌现出的怀旧情绪——那种奇异的熟悉感与归属感，仿佛与一个自己从未真正经历过的时代产生了连接。这个项目探讨了记忆并非是对过去的静态记录，而是一种模拟，它既由客观事实构成，也被主观感知所塑造。新的洞察会重新渲染旧有的记忆，记忆本身也在不断重塑我们的当下。在这个充斥着无限影像与信息的世界里，想要与外部世界、与自我身份建立有意义的连接，常常显得难以企及。

和 Marta 一起，我重新回到童年的场景与情绪，用摄影将它们再现，并与文字碎片并置。这些并非字面意义上的回忆，而是情感的回声：一个动作，一束光，一抹颜色。每一张图像都成为拼贴的一部分——是对记忆的二次创作。这是一种尝试，去保存的不是“曾经发生过的”，而是“曾经被感受到的”。

我自己就是一个怀旧的人。事情发生得越久远，我似乎记得就越清晰。但记忆总是狡黠多变的，记忆与真实之间的张力一直令我着迷。在倾听每一位女性的成长故事时，我希望能捕捉到某种情感上的共鸣——一种在言语与影像中流动的共情。