H SPENCER YOUNG

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Memories of the Future, 2014/2020
Mixed-media sculpture, high-polish surface (reflections integral to the work)
48 × 36.5 in (121.9 × 92.7 cm); depth variable
Edition of 3 + 1 AP

A single exposed roll of medium-format film is transformed into sculptural form, reimagining the fundamental unit of time-based image-making—the film frame—as a brick. These luminous blocks, filled only with sky and light, are scanned, printed, and presented as they are on film: a grid-like composition that functions as both wall and memory structure.

The blue square, a recurring motif, serves as a symbol of indexicality—the foundation of photography’s “truth claim.” Echoing the logic of the interferometer, a scientific array that stitches fragments of data into one global image, the work envisions coherence through simultaneity. Truth here remains unstable, yet the gradients it leaves behind form a hypnotic and stable architecture.