MATERIAL MEMORIES - April 2024

Digital Exhibit

'Material Memories is belink's first digital exhibition. While we prompted each of our artists to think about what migration meant to them, we worked at creating a digital space that would be an environment in which their works could come to life.

The exhibition explores intertwined themes of memory and material through three artists' experiences. How do we unpack our memories through the long established family histories that resurface in the daily materials we encounter? The memories stitched in those tube seats, the filled tomato jars and the movements of what we can't quite express.

Alongside the complex dynamics of generational migration, laid out in Bianca Pina's retrospective exploration of her family's past, moving from Calabria to Australia, the artist expresses how these third culture experiences shaped the ways she associated with her family's origin as well as the land she grew up in.

Alma Schäff dives into the vibrant networks of daily migration memorabilia stained into the fabrics of the London Underground network. The old and weathered material chews so many memories of departures and arrivals, and simple daily commutes. Alma’s work focuses on the potential of discarded materials collected from the Transport For London organization.

Those sensations and expressions of human movements that remain so abstract to us, are modeled in Minsu Kang's three dimensional work. She expresses movement as units of energy filling the space. The subtle yet overpowering feelings of migration are encapsulated in Minsu's work.