Kris Campo: Memorysticks, 2023

Kris Campo: Memorysticks, 2023

“It is purely the magic of the past that brings me there and leaves me standing there with my eyes closed – the past on which I lean as if over a steaming black cup, from which rises in bluish swirls a mixture of memories, sleep, illusions and regrets…”
Belles saisons, Colette

In the Memorysticks series, Kris Campo poetically observes her little life. The series provides an intimate perspective on her existence, her surroundings and the times in which she lives. Memorysticks contains fragments of people and things that passed by and, for some reason, stuck in her mind.

After all, life is mostly a sequence of banal acts and ditto events. Daily activities like drinking coffee, sitting in a living room, visiting a museum, shopping, working … flow by and vanish into deep oblivion.

But sometimes, time falters. Then banality shifts into a recollection that clings to our memory: moments of intense happiness or deep sorrow, indignation that drives us to action or leaves us disempowered, beauty that overwhelms us, ugliness that disgusts us …

Those hiccups of time are stored in Kris Campo’s Memory Sticks. But Memorysticks are also subject to wear and tear and so the stored memories become somewhat distorted, fragmented and faded by the perspective of the past, even though they remain capable of taking us back to an atmosphere or an impression hidden in our brain. Thus, they challenge the viewer to look closely and occasionally elicit a sense of recognition.

Captions

For Spirit Sake, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H: 19 L: 22 W: 13,5 cm / Work: H: 16,5 cm L: 14 cm W: 6 cm / Base: H: 2,5 cm L: 22 cm W: 13,5 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
Midsummer Madness, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions; H: 23,5 L: 22,5 W: 16,5 / Work: H: 19 – L: 13 – W: 8 cm / Base: H: 4,5 – L: 22,5 – W: 16,5 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
The quiet time of musing, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H: 22 L: 33 W: 14 cm / Work one: H: 16 – L: 6,5 – W: 4,5 cm, Work two: H: 12 – L: 14 – W: 7,5 cm / Base: H: 6 – L: 33 – B: 14 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
Variety is the spice of life, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H: 11- L: 34 – W: 20,5 cm / Work: H: 8 – L: 24 – W: 15 cm / Base: H: 3 – L: 34 – W: 20,5 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
Hot Chocolate, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H:11 – L: 34- W: 20,5 cm / Work: H: 16,5 – L: 13 – W: 11,5 cm / Base: H: 3,5 – L: 21,5 – W: 16 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
The living is eastly, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H: 24 L: 21 W: 26,5 / Work: H: 20 – L: 13 – W: 20 cm / Base: H: 4 – L: 21 – W: 26,5 cm.© Stanislas Huaux
The black hole, 2023, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: H: 32,5 – L: 17 – W: 17 cm / Work: H: 26 – L: 15 – W: 10 cm / Base: H: 6,5 – L: 17 – W: 17 cm. © Stanislas Huaux
Midsummernap, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: L:26 – W: 16,5 – D: 0,7 cm
Future-struggle, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: L: 22,5 – W: 18 – D: 3 cm
Coffee Break, clay, colored bone china, decalcomanie, Dimensions: L: 19 – W: 26 – D: 1 cm

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