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NOSTOS/ALGOS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT.

 

What is the texture of nostalgia?

 

Nostos/Algos is a multidisciplinary project that addresses the theme of memory and nostalgia.

The word nostalgia comes from the Greek (nostos) return and (algos) pain.

 Pain from the impossible desire to return.

How to translate this emotion into materia? What would that texture be?

 

We revisit the past through nostalgia, just as we do through photography.

 This project is born from the desire or need to interpret the language of memory to translate it into the formal. It refers to the past or, to put it more accurately, to the relationship we have with the past and how we bring it to the present to make it compatible with life. We approach memory and the use we make of the past in the current moment by appealing to nostalgia as an awareness of Beauty that, just like it happens with memories, we know ends up fading.

 

 

 

 

Textile kombucha is an organic, living material.

 

It decomposes and rots over time just like skin does. This material would here be a representation of the past since the process of generating these textiles metaphorically resembles the process of fossilizing, freezing a moment in time. Likewise, the gesture of photographing a moment translates it into something material. Fossils are the first-time recording device before photography. They could then be considered the closest thing to a photograph before it existed and this is why we find a parallel with this concept here. The intention was to create a material, a texture, that represented memory fossilized in time, a material that was a photograph in itself.

 

The moments that make us nostalgic are milestones of memory that split the past in half, generating a scar, a crack and, ultimately, an absence. They open a portal of communication between present and past, making us return to the latter in a very vivid way. The textures and voids that surround the intervention we made with kombucha textiles would represent all these concepts inherent to Nostalgia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Japanese technique of Gyotaku (Gyo -fish- and Taku -rubbing-) is one of the techniques that most accurately lead us to the discourse of the direct imprint. When the sheets of the tea fungus are removed from the medium where we let them grow and are dried in the sun, they become a kind of textile material, similar to a mummification of the material itself, thus becoming a trace of something alive, of a memory. The texture of nostalgia would be something like the direct imprint of a memory.

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©Julieta Toribio, Sergio Lardiez. All rights reserved. 

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