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‘A la Recherché du Temps Perdu’, the title of Proust’s famous literary epic, generally translates as ‘Remembrance of things past’.

Things – ok. It suggests the inanimate.

But, obviously, remembrance of people past is also most important to us.

Simultaneously side-by-side, we often recall – indeed treasure – artefacts associated with loved ones lost, and passed on.

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A child’s teddy bear, a teenager’s favourite blouse, an aspiring rock star’s first electric guitar.

It can be something as simple as a much-loved scarf, regularly worn and often captured in pictures.

Argentinian born photographer Paula Salischiker who is now based in London focuses, in her latest project, on what she calls ‘The Memory of Objects’.

She elaborates “Can photography fill the emptiness of death? Is a photograph enough to remember someone’s existence? Or are the objects the ones that bring us back the certainty that there was a past?

Perhaps in the objects and in the longevity of images we find the same painful truth: what does not have a life will never die.

Even after we are gone, we will be remembered through small things, pieces of who we were will be kept by the ones who loved us, while trying to escape the oblivion. My images are born from this gesture of remembrance.”

Paula is now studying History and History of Ideas at Goldsmiths and is, in her work, aiming for what she calls ‘a poetic approach’.

As she says, “You don’t need blood to transmit ideas about death, nor people crying to connote sadness”.

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