when i die i will have loved everything

21 September - 17 November, 2019

In this exhibition, artists Angie Quick and Heather Verplanke examine how memory is preserved. Using a variety of media, including painting and miniatures, they approach memory as both a ruin and an object of salvation. On the one hand, Quick’s diaristic work expresses the ways that memory can perish with the passing of time; on the other hand, Verplanke’s model environments blend memory with fantasy as a means to prevent forgetting. Though they use the concept of memory differently, Quick and Verplanke are connected by their desire to negotiate past memories in the present moment before they fade again. “The moments of the past do not remain still,” Marcel Proust reminds us, “they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future.” Here are intimate memories seen in other ways through other worlds, turned inside out, then put back together again. The result powerfully demonstrates how vulnerable memory can be.