Memory Palace.

"First you must choose a place...You get to know this place as well as you can..."


"...Then you place the thing you need to remember around the building in the form of pictures...
these pictures must be startling enough to trigger your imagination..."


"...Go into your imagintation to the spot where you have stored it..."


Artist Hari Kunzn's memory palace shown at the Victoria and Albert museum, displays a fictionalised story from a prisoners view ( The Narrator)who is part of a sect who leads a dedicated remembering  society where recording the past is a criminal offence. It is set in london  where a 'catastrophic natural disaster has destroyed all of the planet’s sophisticated technologies, a new dark age has dawned in a city that is rapidly being consumed by nature.' This narrative world is visualised through a series of commissions by 20 internationally acclaimed illustrators, graphic designers and typographers.

I found this exhibition very moving as the concpet behind it did really make me think how much i/we all rely on our memories in making us make descisions in our everyday live. As our memories make up our identitys, if all memories were lost we would be almost robotic in the way that we would communicate having no unqiuness or personality in ourselves. Unfortunatly pictures wernt permitted so i took down some of the quotes I agreed with that are written above these two paragraphs.