Nogah Engler

Oil on board, 60x80cm, 2012

The author Umberto Eco said that we accumulate our memories as we grow older. Long forgotten images and sounds from our past resurface years later.
In her work 'Belongings', Engler seems to carry out an inventory of her memories, taking down pictures that were hanging on walls for many years, and placing them on the floor.
In doing so she exposes the traces these pictures leave on the wall, and allows for new pictures to take their place.