This ongoing project works with found images taken from used memory cards; each image becoming a self-contained archive of an individual’s memories. The deliberate deletion of the original images functions as a violent act of erasure - an attempt to purge memory that instead intensifies its presence. Drawing on the Freudian notion of memory as a palimpsest, the work suggests that nothing is ever fully erased; traces persist beneath every surface.

The images engage the notion of the archive as a system driven by the fantasy of complete knowledge and mastery. Although all available archival material is presented, it resists legibility, making the extraction of stable meaning difficult. The archival promise thus collapses into an unobtainable utopian vision. The resulting sense of loss is inseparable from the archive’s structural incompleteness, aligning it with processes of mourning. What remains is an archive defined as much by absence and failure as by what it preserves.