Unreliable Memories

Category: Bestseller, Photography, Paris Photo

€45.00

ISBN: 978-84-17975-82-1

Author: Nick Meek

Binding: Tapa blanda
Pages 112
Size: 23 x 31 cm / 9.1 x 12.2in
Language: Bilingual (ESP-ENG)
Year of publication: 2022

Soaked in color and deliberate in its staging, Nick Meek’s aesthetic is a key to unlocking the collective psyche. Accessed through imagination and leading to a fiction of reality, this collective psyche is the space where meanings that might have never been there in the first place are created, opening to a profound questioning of the effects of memory in the way we perceive not only what surrounds us, but also ourselves.

The book gathers 39 hazy and hyperreal images of landscapes across the United States, with only a few exceptions in France and Japan. Printed
in spreads allowing the reader to immerse themselves in the gaze of the photographer, the photographs become landscape in itself. Far from being descriptive, they tear the surface of what we believethe places ought to be, their own representation, delving into the space for re-imagining.

The tension that arises is the dialectic between past and present, proximity and distance, real and unreal, a constant sway, like a murmur, latent, under the surface that is inherently bittersweet.

This volume is a device for thinking about those places we thought we knew.

“Unreliable Memories upholds this imperfect creative quality of our memories at a time when technology offers us the possibility to register every single moment of our lives with clinical precision”.

Borja Bagunyà