Title: Nostalgia
Description: Navalgia is an ongoing artwork started in 2019 that takes the form of deleting digital photographs from my personal archive. These photographs have been made on various digital cameras since the early 2000's and stored on computers, hard drives, and memory cards. Their subjects are diverse: ranging from personal moments, to visual note-taking as a mnemonic device, to photos used in artworks. (And some I just don't remember or know why I made them, maybe from a drunken blur:) When exhibited the artwork is presented as a digital projection. The photographs are exhibited once for one minute and then deleted. The number of projected (and deleted), images equal the number in minutes an exhibition is open. For example, in 2019 at La Criée centre d'art contemporain in Rennes, France, Nostalgia consisted of 19,080 digital photographs projected for a total duration bf 19,080 minutes. If no one is in the exhibition at the moment a photograph is projected, no one sees it. (The photographs become ephemeral like the moments they originally capture.) In 2019 the Frac ile-de-France in Paris acquired 15,756 of these digital photographs for their collection. The files remain on a hard drive until exhibited and deleted. Slowly the photographs acquired will deplete until there are none left. The texts in this publication are descriptions of images from that collection. At this moment, as you read this, the photographs may or may not be deleted. Metadata indicating time and date are presented along with memories of the photographs. If the camera was not set or if there was a malfunction, that data might not reflect the actual time of the moment of the photograph. --Dovid Horvilz.
Subjects: Conceptual art, Memory in art, Artists' books, Specimens
Places: Mexico
Time periods: 2021, 21st century