My first time curating a gallery exhitibion.

MEMORY + NOSTALGIA: Meet me at the intersection of time and space was a projection mapping exhibition in partnership with EMMEDIA and Particle + Wave Festival.

Featuring 3 incredible artists: Jacqueline Huskisson, Meryl Prendergast, and Nicole Anne Santangelo

Curated by me, Mackenzie Bedford!

Curating a gallery exhibition involved finding artists working on similar themes, tracking them down and getting them to commit, and trusting them to ship their work to EMMEDIA in time. It was a nailbiter!

I also needed to write the “why” behind the exhibition, it was my first time writing something so serious!

Thank you to EMMEDIA’s Joe and Janira for an incredible installation and artist reception!

Curatorial Statement

Projection and memory share an ephemeral nature. The soft glow of projected light can mimic hazy memories passing through the mind’s eye. Neither can be touched, yet both can be felt.

Each of the artists in “Meet me at the intersection of time and space” have uniquely tapped into this intangible connection and use projection mapping as a method to ferment their memories into nostalgia, resolution, and even new narratives.

With “Play It Again!” Prendergast creates portals to visit familiar dreamscapes by combining childhood archives and woven textiles.

Santangelo transcends the physical plane using projection to channel the memory of her loved one in “Out of Reach”.

Huskisson’s “Reminiscence” examines the abstraction of grief and memory by distorting projections on dynamic, moving surfaces.

By using projection mapping to examine their memories, these artists process the emotions that accompany them. In a world of rectangular screens and doom scrolling, it is easy to become emotionally detached from reality. Projection mapping disrupts this detachment with a grounding experience of light and spatial connection in the shared reality of the exhibition space.

“Meet me at the intersection of time and space” features projection mapping to illustrate the fleeting nature of memory, but also to transform the traditional gallery into a gateway for reflection, reverence and restructuring. This exhibition encourages its audiences to find comfort in the intangible, and to consider processing emotional memories in new, illuminating ways.

Content Advisories

Grief, death.