Missing Parts, the Sound of Silence
I am Helene le Chatelier (artist and writer). I am working on a long term collaborative art project entitles Missing Part. It has been presented in May 2023 through Art Outreach’s Hearth Program in Gillman Barracks, Singapore as well as in London during an exhibition called Itinerant Practices, curated by Peruke Projects . I have planned it to be based on a collaborative process through workshops, virtual and real encounters with various people and communities across the globe such as yourselves. This results in a series of artworks and installations exploring themes of individual and collective resilience.
Through this page, I hope to engage with you evolving around themes such as memory and resilience, and how art can provide comfort and well-being to anyone. I plan to focus my engagement based on the human ability to contain memories, by turning difficult remembrance into poetic objects. One parallel example would be through the physicality of paper as a malleable material, our memory can mirror this property as we continue to live, expand, and develop.
You are invited to send anonymously written or recorded memories through the attached Google Form below. Please kindly note that all languages are welcome so feel free to express yourself in any tongue that is comfortable for you.
All testimonies will remain confidential in their original forms and will be transformed, assembled and turned into poetic artworks. It is my hope that through this transformation process, these collected contents from the community will convey the notion that we carry within ourselves the capacity to build joy, lightness and poetry despite challenging life circumstances.
Through the written testimonies and oral history in both social and private settings, Missing Part aims to be a collaborative and inclusive project that builds bridges among generations and communities. The work hopes to highlight resilience as one of the commonalities of our human condition through the voices of different individuals living different lives on the same territory. It seeks to pay tribute and honour all the unknown / anonymous individuals whose personal stories constitute the narrative of social history.
Thank you for your contribution! With this project I am hoping to contribute in bringing more lightness, resilience and joy into your life through art!
Helene
