The Laboratory for Forgetting

Launched: 2014

In this photography therapy, participants receive a prescribed roll of film in a blue pill case. The participant is instructed to take pictures of the things they want to forget and then to bury the film roll for at least 39days. After digging it out of the ground, they send it to the laboratory to be developed. The image results are faded, saturated, and swept away by time and the condition of being underground.

For her 2013 solo presentation, Naoko Wowsugi is offers an experience at Black Iris where language, image and action envelop you into world that is at once minimal, sterile and humor filled. “Make Believe” explores two ends of the cognitive experience, learning and forgetting, taking shape as two overlapping installations.