Vega ROYER-GASPARD
Beaux-Arts de Paris
My work centers around a system of archives constituted by elements I find online. I re-use and rework through writing and editing in an attempt to bring out new narratives. Working on the Internet means having to deal with its fluidity and looseness. In trying to gather some of my and others past identities and memories left online, I engage myself in a process of crossing and joining together a multiplicity of traces and paths. This un-linear system is at at the core of the exhibition who encourages to think of the environment we operate in as a multi faceted and ever changing paradigm.
‘A place to bury strangers’ combines eleven queer memories from Queeringthemap.com and a myriad of places found on Google Street View. These are stitched through video to form a new continuum. There is a sense of plurality as well as an ensemble formed by the multiple voices. The video invites the audience to think of online spaces as a modern place of remembrance. Crossing the strangers’ memories with one of mine, I indulge in the process of leaving a trace unaware of its future.