LORNA TIERNAN

Tethered and becoming

My own research looked initially at what lay outside the borders of family photo albums, at the strangers who appear always at the margins of the image, and at the role their presence plays in the construction of memory and identity. I became intrigued with the concept of movement, with the way that it is slippery, never actually captured but only glimpsed momentarily. This developed into my research about the body in space through photography, drawing, and performance, investigating the relationship between presence and absence, stillness and movement, through these means gaining an understanding of memory as something that is lived with, not captured. In doing so, I came to understand that the role of the archive is dynamic, not fixed.