An exhibition of photographs by Charles Anselmo
The photographs of Charles Anselmo are linked by the diversely abstract elements of broken structure and fragmented interiors, but are more explicitly concerned with the intersection of place, memory and social context. Combining social history with aesthetic forms as a way of interpreting the past, Memoria Eidética invokes the dreamscape of remembrance, the role of the artifacts around us, and the inescapable impermanence of our human-made world.
A visual narrative in translucent silk fabric and paper prints, the exhibit depicts the myriad patinas, textures and broken detritus of the forgotten cityscape of Havana, Cuba through the exploration of several counterpoints: the apocryphal and the real, the ideality of forms and their ensuing decay, and the human percipient’s relationship to the disparate, deconstructed realities which somehow remain eidetically connected to their original identities.