Body, Memory House
Oliver's debut chapbook, 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 spaces.
Cumulating as installation in 2021, consisting of seven photographic prints and four poems printed on organza, the work utilizes the relationship between diaristic text and image-making to document the re-performance of memory— at once revealing and concealing, as memory often turns to autofiction.
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 articulates and archives the intensity of young relationships with complete sincerity, while simultaneously validating it and retroactively exposing the hysteria, power dynamics, and all or nothing nature of it.
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.
A Physical Book Which
Compiles Conceptual
Books by Various Artists
A collection of artists’ books that exist only as verbal statements, descriptions, or provocations. The collection features more than ninety contributors from around the world.
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Edited by Carley Gomez and Levi Sherman
2022
180 pages
A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in. closed)
Perfect-bound paperback