Artwork

The Superposed Memory

Dana Kim

The Superposed Memory grew from photographs accumulated over years of walking Gyeongui Line Forest Park in Seoul. Revisited again and again, the place does not settle into a single memory. The same path held a spring afternoon and a snowy evening at once, and each walk brought a different memory forward. The past stays latent alongside the present, and what surfaces depends on the conditions of the day. 3D Gaussian Splatting gives this state a visible form. The technique assumes multi-view consistency, that all its input photographs show one scene at one moment from different angles. In this work, scenes from different periods bound to the same place are trained into a single space against that assumption. Instead of converging into a single image, different times of one place remain latent together and surface by turns as the viewpoint moves. The blurs, translucencies and traces that result are the language of the work. A remembered place appears partially, is superposed with other memories, and does not fully settle. In the installation, the superposed scene is projected in a loop of about 10 minutes, moving in turn through viewpoints within that memory space. Visitors sit on a park bench in front of it, as they would on the path itself. The work amplifies the sense of place memory that arises in the body walking that path into a perceptible form, without fixing it into a single image.

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