Recycled memories _ Memorias recicladas
(2011-2012)
Recycled memories (2011-2012). Inkjet Print on collected Kraft Paper. Variable dimensions.
Overwhelmed by the amount of waste produced in New York City, the source for Recycled memories are kraft paper bags collected by the artist during several months, when buying her daily food. Ana printed images from plants she took in the Botanical Garden, in the paper that otherwise would have become garbage, to reference consumer habits, the mundane, and the disinterested in the environment.
On a second stage of the project, change became an integral part of the work. The artist placed the photographs as urban interventions in different points of Williamsburg, Brooklyn; the neighbourhood she would call home back then. Time and climate worn out the images, and Ana returned to those places after a month and collected the photographs remained.
Overwhelmed by the amount of waste produced in New York City, the source for Recycled memories are kraft paper bags collected by the artist during several months, when buying her daily food. Ana printed images from plants she took in the Botanical Garden, in the paper that otherwise would have become garbage, to reference consumer habits, the mundane, and the disinterested in the environment.
On a second stage of the project, change became an integral part of the work. The artist placed the photographs as urban interventions in different points of Williamsburg, Brooklyn; the neighbourhood she would call home back then. Time and climate worn out the images, and Ana returned to those places after a month and collected the photographs remained.
Installation view, International Center of Photography, New York, 2011
Streen interventions, June 2012 and July 2012, New York, 2012
“Away from her place, the artist seeks in another city similar images to the city of origin trying to reconcile a memory and a way to experiment life in there that doesn't seem possible anymore. Ana Baumann finds, at the New York Botanical Garden, the green that her memory links to the city of Asunción. She prints in the paper bags, the botanical that refers to the yearned space and expose these bags to the deterioration of the street. There, where the garbage is disposed, for the time and climate to erase it, until from the image does not remain but the body that keeps them, equally dull and faded” - Damián Cabrera, curator and writer