Déjà Perdu

The installation Déjà Perdu – ‘already lost’ – took place at the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art in 2009. As opposed to the term déjà vu, ‘already seen’, the title of the installation reflects an approach to the experience of memory that is bodily, multi-sensory and not necessarily visual. The exhibition consisted of a single projection of a found, square format slide depicting a hunter with shot game, a box of Swedish soil, a set of small frames with found text, one frame packed with Swedish soil, a small stuffed bird on the ledge of the mantelpiece and ten small wooden light boxes fitted with early twentieth century glass negatives of men and women in uniform.