Memories Enclosed..Handle with Care

Memories Enclosed...Handle with Care plays with the notion of family photography and memory as the primary means in which a family describes itself. The exhibition reflects upon utopian notions of family life perpetuated by social ideals and conventions presented to us through family traditions and media industries and explores the inadequacies of conventional family photography to describe the reality of family life. In contemplating my own childhood family photographs I realize that my memory was deeply altered by the family stories and photographs presented to me. This production of family narrative to produce domestic truth, for me, is problematic in that it disguises family ideals as family reality. This project is rooted in my desire to reclaim my own personal memo- ries and attempt to capture family truth.