"Everything that forms and creates us disappears completely when we die." Christian Boltanski

Miranda Lopatkin's photographs and sound / text installation explores the phenomenon of 'borrowed' and trans-generational memory in the post-Holocaust generations.

She belongs to the generation of young Jewish artists whose consciousness is shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust but who have no first-hand knowledge of it.

Her work explores the tensions between light and dark spaces, shadows and camouflage, a space somewhere between the present and the past. It often concerns domestic environments and the memories that are silent or hidden within the architecture of the house. The images evoke places that feel familiar yet create a sense of unease.

The work is about memory, about how it is 'passed on' and 'made'. There is a sense of intimacy, of the 'small memory' in these images. They are between scenes, perhaps like the cross fade in a film, a metaphor for the blurring and fading of history, identity and memory.