Remember to Forget

Remember to Forget

Mame-Diarra Niang • MACK

This edition of Remember to Forget

ISBN-10: 1731495528 · ISBN-13: 978‑1915743565

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A carefully curated artist’s book, Remember to Forget is a tetralogy comprised of Mame-Diarra Niang’s series Call Me When You Get Ther e, Léthé, Sama Guent Guii, and Æther . The works reflect on the abstraction of the Black body and the artist’s refusal to portray Blackness for herself and for others. Niang’s concept of the plasticity of territory as a constantly evolving and shifting entity is at the root of her work and is expanded here through different modes of non-portraiture. In these images, the self dissolves, vanishes, recedes, refracts, and appears fragmented and blurred. In the artist’s own words: ‘My work is about memory and forgetting. What makes a self? I have come to think of the self as a territory made of well-curated memories and erasures. Remember to Forget places us where being itself is a forgotten monument; where even the most persistent conception of identity dissolves in front of us. Naître et n’être rien .' Published as a limited edition of 500 signed copies.

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