Constructed Memory: Linet Sanchez Gutierrez

Linet Sanchez Gutierrez investigates memory through the construction and photography of models. These quaint, finely crafted architectural interiors are not renditions of specific places; they are structures built from sensory input, emotion residue, and personal experience. Much like memory itself, each maquette Gutierrez builds is a construct or amalgamation of her lived experience.

My work connects mainly with memory and architectural spaces which I feel like a kind of container of our life experiences. I show them white and empty alluding to oblivion and at the same time to a kind of birth because for me, over time, our memories are separate from the reality where they were born to become something else.

My works arise from self-absorption, from introspection and not from the observation of what is around me; they intend to return to this state in their contemplation. These spaces are built as a cardboard model first, then I take the photographs. — Linet Sanchez Gutierrez

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website