Trish Scott Statement

 

My work investigates the social processes and relationships embodied in material forms of culture. Influenced by my prior training in anthropology, I´m interested in the interplay between people and their possessions, between people and place. Places and objects are key triggers for memories. At the same time people constantly reinvent themselves and their biographies through managing their belongings and curating the space around them. The physical world is imbued with collective and personal histories. I draw out these stories in my work, also reworking the history making process to effect new place-based connections and narratives.


My practice is project based and site specific. Recent locations range from a street corner in Barcelona, to abandoned marble quarries in Portugal to a 70s tower block in Germany. Having chosen a site, I subject it to ¨forensic" analysis, collecting objects and capturing fragments of experience (images, sounds, voices), in order to accumulate residual whispers of past lives. Via the memory and imagination of myself and my viewers I then re-present this information in the form of an installation, performance or collaborative action, drawing out the unreliable biography of places and items found.