Exhibition Type: Solo Exhibition

Curator:
Tanguy Sévat-Denuet (Réunion Island)

Artist(s):
Sandrine Lam
Venue:
Castle of Good Hope 

Address:
Cape Town

Description:
This exhibition is structured around the notion of what is destined to disappear. Through the photography of Sandrine Lam the project brings into tension fragments of the territory captured in a suspended state, between persistence and inevitable erasure.

These black-and-white photographs, produced without digital alteration, capture elements of reality that still belong to the present but are already becoming obsolete. There is a form of unsettling irony in these images between heritage, memory, and contemporaneity: we attach ourselves to the remnants of a past, indulging in a nostalgia that we sometimes frame as resistance to modernization.

Lam’s photographs is based on direct capture, without retouching or transformation, in an effort to fix what physically marks a space and to offer a truth far removed from postcard imagery. These images constitute the city, the street, the territory in its sensitive and identity-based depth. Yet it is only in the moment of disappearance that absence fully reveals itself – and with it, the loss of a truth specific to these territories.

Through this exhibition, I aim to question that precise moment when reality shifts into memory, when space loses what once defined its singularity