Grace Hill

My work explores the link between memory and imagination in the traditional family photograph, and the vital role that photography has in establishing this relationship. More specifically, the way that memories from our childhoods can be informed by the influence of time. What we remember now, may simply be an imagination, rather than truth. Throughout the work, I have been continuously questioning the reliability of the image, and whether we can rely on a photograph to deliver the truth to remembering a time gone by.

Creating performative tableaux, I have taken the memories of others into my own impression, and recaptured these times, reinterpreted with the influence of my imagination. This body of work reimagines the weird and wonderful childhood memories of four of my closest friends, accompanied by video footage and audio recordings of the spoken memory, to allow the viewer to form their own imagination of the memory themselves.