Pania's Photo Parade

By Pania

Most Important Memory

First picture taken for my big art project in school.

Here's the concept:

I am going to do something kind of like Duchamp's "50 cc of Paris Air". The lovely man took a glass ampule with air from Paris and brought it to New York, gave it the before mentioned title and then he had himself a readymade. Tricky concept, since you cannot see or hear or feel the content - Instead, the art is based on your knowledge of what is inside the ampule.
I plan to do something similar, but a bit more elaborate.
I'll capture certain intense sounds from human beings, in glass containers; laughter, a prayer, a love declaration, the sound of an orgasm (a moan, I guess) and a person explaining the most important memory he/she has.
It all has to be authentic, no cheating.
Then I'll line them up, with a written title, so people know what's inside each of them, even though they are unable to tell any difference by looking at the containers.
They'll then have this very personal and meaningful thing in a glass container in front of them, that they cannot see or sense in any way; in itself a special thing.
Also, by isolating the merely physical part of fx. a prayer (the air and sound particles) I wish for the viewer to consider exactly what the nature and essence of such a (supposedly) meaningful thing is. A prayer is meant to be a means of divine communication, something much more than just words. But in front of the viewer is a conserved "prayer", something concrete and physical.

Above each container, I'll have a photo underlining the content, with the person who has uttered the sound as model.
First model was my mother and I now have a glass container in my window sill with the most important moment of her life, uttered in words.

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