The installation comprises five videos displayed in a loop on stacked tube monitors, in which personal and collective memories are elaborated through the manipulation of fragments of images, videos and testimonies from both the artist's family archive and mass media. The audio with accounts of the artist's father's migration to Iran in the 1970s is added to the making of cuts, on Photoshop, in images of his uncle in the 1980s in the Middle East; other pictures cut out from family albums are juxtaposed with music videos from commercial Sinhalese cinema and videos promoting the neoliberal development of postwar Sri Lanka. Through techniques such as collage and pixelation, the images are blurred and altered so that memory is, at one time, the space of invention, repression and reformulation of individual and social history.
