The Winter Garden: An Engram Cathy Tuato’o Ross

In the East Side space, Cathy Tuato’o Ross presents The Winter Garden: An Engram, where experience, memory and recollection are separated and considered. Memory is almost a bad word now. It has been exhausted and overused, (like identity), but is not the memory of childhood or nostalgia that this project addresses.

An Engram is a memory trace, a supposed permanent change in the brain accounting for the existence of memory. Tuato'O Ross is interested in memory not only as a property of individual minds but also as the basis of social or collective knowledge, traditions and narratives. The Winter Garden traces memory from experience to reconstruction, explores its structure, and emphasises that memory is also imagination and distortion. 

Presented alongside Labor L’amour