Invented memory

"Notre mémoire est une fiction. Cela ne veut pas dire qu’elle est fausse, mais que, sans qu’on lui demande rien, elle passe son temps à ordonner, à associer, à articuler, à sélectionner, à exclure, à oublier, c’est-à-dire à construire, c’est-à-dire à fabuler." Nancy Huston

I like this quote by the author Nancy Huston, and it is also part of the inspiration behind an art exhibit a friend I met in France is helping design. The photos on the website give you a bit of an idea of what the exhibit is about. http://www.infabula.org/blog/ I am also a bit of a fan of the former Canadian turned French author. It is interesting to think about memories constantly being reinvented in the mind, and the video art installation that juxtaposes different people's stories about their lives. Often when I think about the past I wonder if that is what happened, what someone told me about it. or what I want to think or remember about that time.