This exhibition explores the fragile, unreliable, and deeply romanticised nature of personal and collective memory. Memory does not function as a perfect archive, instead, it erases, distorts, and sometimes fabricates, shaping our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Memories are often treated as truth, as anchors of identity and experience, but they are fluid, unstable, and deeply subjective. Each time we recall a moment, we reconstruct it, colouring it with new emotions, associations, or gaps. Over time, the memory can shift so drastically that it becomes something else entirely. These subtle transformations raise essential questions: what do we lose with each act of remembering, and what do we create in its place?

A group of invited artists explores the nuanced and complex terrain of memory in this thoughtful exhibition. Their works navigate the spaces between presence and absence, clarity and distortion, fact and imagination. Together, they prompt reflection on three key failures of memory: the gaps within our archives—be they national, familial, or personal; the everyday details that inevitably fade over time; and the ambiguity of inherited memories—stories and emotions passed down through generations that we feel deeply, even if we have not experienced them firsthand.

How do we fill in the gaps left by memory’s failure? Through imagination? Through repetition? And if so, are we recovering something real, or creating something new entirely?
So, we ask you: Tell us about a day you don’t remember.