LARA KALECIK
1       WE ONCE KNEW HOW TO HOLD 2       THE ABSENCE OF AN OBJECT WITHOUT MEMORY 3       THIS CHAIR IS STILL AVAILABLE 4       DIARY
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In the late 2000s, my mother’s hands began to change. I do not remember them before that change. Instead, I inherited their memory through my own: when people notice my fingers, she tells me hers used to look the same.

This project explores bodily memory through touch, gesture, and the gradual transformation of the body. Bringing together archival photographs, contemporary images, and AI-generated reconstructions, the work examines how gestures survive even when the body can no longer fully perform them.

In some AI-generated images, reconstruction becomes unstable, revealing how memory can become entangled with cultural assumptions around femininity and motherhood.



We Once Knew How To Hold, 2024 -

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