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carlier | gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to announce cadence, Ian Waelder’s first solo show with the gallery.
For the ancient Greeks, Mnemosyne, mother of the nine muses and Goddess of memory, symbolized the preservation of knowledge, experiences, and emotions. Memory is encapsulated in our lifetime and all that goes beyond it turn into History. This is a reason why, perhaps, we started looking again at other cultures and traditions and at their rites. For many non-Western cultures memory entails the exercise of going back in history.
Recalling as many traits as possible and details of that past through collective remembering and oral narratives was a way of visualizing together the ancestors, our predecessors. In rural Spain, where I come from, many families like mine celebrate a rite for the grandparents that all family members attend to pay respects in the day that person died.
Still our culture is mostly oriented towards the future, a bright future, a…
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carlier | gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to announce cadence, Ian Waelder’s first solo show with the gallery.
For the ancient Greeks, Mnemosyne, mother of the nine muses and Goddess of memory, symbolized the preservation of knowledge, experiences, and emotions. Memory is encapsulated in our lifetime and all that goes beyond it turn into History. This is a reason why, perhaps, we started looking again at other cultures and traditions and at their rites. For many non-Western cultures memory entails the exercise of going back in history.
Recalling as many traits as possible and details of that past through collective remembering and oral narratives was a way of visualizing together the ancestors, our predecessors. In rural Spain, where I come from, many families like mine celebrate a rite for the grandparents that all family members attend to pay respects in the day that person died.
Still our culture is mostly oriented towards the future, a bright future, a…
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