Ampersand

Annual 14



Paméla Simard / Bachelor of Art Theory

Dislocation
2014
Fibre (Nylon)
200cm x 200cm x 200 cm (approx.) and three banners 75cm x 200cm each

This installation addresses the limits of war as a language.
Three banners form this work, each one figuring the word 'dislocation' being repeated 22 times. However, there is a distortion in the language as it becomes challenging to discern the text.
Suspending the volume creates a sense of surrounding. This isolation refers to the notion of protection – against the globalisation of fear – and recalls the disjunction between global memory and the actual lived experience.
Emptiness, volumes and forms are reworked in order to suggest an alternative way of thinking about the translation of memory in relationship to war.