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- Meg Wright
Meg
Wright
MYSTOPIA
Dystopia translates literally from the Greek as ‘a not- good place’, while utopia translates as ‘a good place’. I am using the word mystopia to define a place
that is neither good nor bad, an in-between place. My work focuses on childhood and memories, while book-making and storytelling have become central to my studio practice. Through the use of juxtaposed and familiar imagery, blank spaces, found or personal photographs and treasured objects, I examine notions of memory and the role photography plays in memory and forgetting. For unlike photographs, which remain largely unchanged by time, our memories are subject to revisions, adjustments and alterations due to the context under which they are revisited. Through my work I seek to create repressed, confabulated and misremembered moments. Borrowed and stolen memories encourage the viewer to question their personal relationship to these re/collections, and the familiar imagery provokes a sense of deja-vu and encourages the invention of common memories.