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Beyond a post-retro future

February 27th, 2007

Color memory by Scottish artist, Stephen Hurrel, 2005 recipient of a Creative Scotland Award.

Colour in itself has the ability to transport us to different points in time and to unearth latent memories. By focussing on specific colours sampled from everyday objects and media the artist intends to test this theory.

Through collecting objects and images, including sources from his own childhood years, the artist has identified certain ‘nostalgic colours’ that communicate another time and place. Using both traditional and digital media to abstract these colours from their original context, and to manipulate the source material, it is hoped the artworks will now become triggers for memory in the minds of the viewer.

“Colour Memory does what it says on the tin - it recovers the past through colours: an episode of Star Trek broken down digitally into its component colours (mustard yellow, turquoise, red); an installation of coloured lids. It makes a simple but powerful point.”

浮现在脑海里的记忆、影片中出现的倒叙情节、那些陈旧的过往大都被习惯性的叙述成黑白色，但是我认为记忆永远是彩色的 - Yuanyuan Wu

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