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Lily-Oliver- Body Memory House Installat

Body, Memory House, Installation view, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA

           Body, Memory House explores compromised identity, intimacy, and memory as auto-fiction through photographic prints and text, cataloging various relationships and the blurred line between public and private.

          The relationship of text and image confuse each other, one might reveal more about the other, but forever present is partial concealment. The use of self portraits complicates the photographs position as ‘the truth,’ questioning the reliability of personal narrative and ownership of the self— Body, Memory House is a series best seen from the periphery, a knot of phrases uttered in private space, a series of fleeting glances compounding into a single understood experience.

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I Laid A Million Teeth To Rest, Digital Photograph, 12" x 16", 2021

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Body, Memory House consists of seven photographic prints, four original texts digitally printed on organza, and an edition of thirty printed posters. 

I Don't Know Kindness, Digital photograph, 10" x 8", 2021

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The Sound of a Receding Engine, Digital Photograph, 18" x 24", 2021 

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All Those Times [At a Distance] Diptych, digital photograph, 24" x 18", 2021

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Haunt, Original text, 2019-2021

Loose Me, Original text, Organza, 17" x 11", 2021

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From left to right: 

The Sudden Presence, digital photograph, 10" x 8", 2021  

Silence, Handwritten, Original text, 2021 

A Lack of Sound, digital photograph, 10" x 8", 2021

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