Memory needs a container
We remember in abstractions. We remember voices, rhythms, locations, recurring patterns.
Shelter translates these specific forms of memory into physical code, encoding them onto wearable objects.
A ring carries fragments of recorded speech converted into a waveform that wraps around its surface like the digital etching on a CD. The voice is no longer heard. It is inscribed. A cylindrical pendant records repetition as burned bands marking periods when a certain situation occurred, gaps between them marking absence. A bracelet traces sections of a meaningful map.
Each format responds to a different category of memory. Each object becomes a private archive.
Ring, pendant, diadem
Legible only to its wearer
The data embedded in each piece is precise but unreadable without context. An outsider sees a pattern. The wearer knows what it holds.
Unlike conventional data visualisation, the goal here is not clarity. It is compression, intimacy, protection. Memory becomes abstracted, encoded, and sealed within material. What is visible is only a trace of a larger, inaccessible structure.
These were not speculative prototypes. People provided recordings, dates, coordinates. Each object was produced as a custom piece anchored in lived experience, operating at the boundary between commission and speculation.
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Quick facts
First show
- 2011
Supported by
- Junta de Andalucia
Exhibited at
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Thanks to
- Katja Endisch
First show
- 2011
Supported by
- Junta de Andalucia
Thanks to
- Katja Endisch
Exhibited at
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien
First show
- 2011
Supported by
- Junta de Andalucia
Exhibited at
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Thanks to
- Katja Endisch