Grace Bonneyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Grace BonneyInstagram)「“Making Ourselves at Home in Someone Else’s Utopia” 2020. Collage. Artwork by @aisforavery Nastassja: What led you to working with the archive and how has it become its own medium in your work? Avery: As a young person I think I was very interested in the lives that people had before I knew them, outside the contexts in which I knew them. I was especially curious about my grandparents, with whom I spent a lot of time after school. It was usually photographs that sparked conversations about the past and allowed me to ask a lot of questions. I was a nosy kid! The family album was my first understanding of the archive. While a lot of my work has its origins in photographs, it also pushes back against what I would argue is the flatness of our traditional definitions and understandings of archive. I’ve come to define the archive as many things: a comb that your great aunt gave you, a relative’s green card application, a receipt, a dress, a story that has been passed down, a recipe, a feeling, a song, your DNA, how you walk, the color of your hair. Being an artist and researcher is a very socially acceptable way to be a curious and nosy adult! I engage with the archive in fictional, speculative, and imaginative ways. There is playfulness in my work. Materially that manifests through color and texture and animation.The archive allows me to inquire and speculate about other people’s lives and inner thoughts, which helps me to organize and make sense of my own. I’m always considering new ways to engage with the past, present and future. With the archive as inspiration, the possibilities are endless.」2月19日 8時44分