Alec De Busschère
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Memory Cache Collection 99 2023
Scarf
Printed silk
115 cm × 85 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
In 1999, Alec De Busschère asked five acquaintances to grant him access to the “cache files” on their computers. This temporary storage unknowingly archives all files encountered by the computer, be they images, ads, texts, icons, or videos—much like a journey through a space from which we consciously retain only a few elements. Twenty-five years on, the collection’s approach has almost reversed. It’s about inspecting the black box, analysing these images, most of them orphaned, un-situated, with no identifiable author or source, now absent from the web. They are like ghosts, like enigmas. Their evocative force, their power of attraction, is due in part to this mystery, to the buried memory that some of them awaken. They reveal current events, an imaginary world and imagery. Printed on silk, this strange soft-erotic “Lynchian” photography stands out from the cache.
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