Angela Casagrande – “Everything That I Could Keep Inside”
In her latest exhibition, Everything That I Could Keep Inside, Angela Casagrande’s new work is centered around the afterlife of memory. Resulting from a fascination with the frailty of memory, her work examines memory as an aspect of liminal space, the beings that inhabit this space and the artifacts left behind, both physical and immaterial. Her graphoscopes serve the dual purpose of reliquary and assemblage – both housing sentimental mementos while displaying these items as narrative pieces. The act of encasing photographic images in encaustic wax refers to methods of Spiritualist communications with the spirit world through wax divination, along with preservation and occult binding practices. By coating these images in layers of wax, Casagrande binds the memory in place, saving it from decay.
