Acts of memory
Lea Ovcina
OCAD University
This body of work is an exploration into how inherited memory intersects lived memories and relationships. Working through my own distanced relationship with place and belonging, to understand where I fit into my family narrative with limited personal experience of defining a ‘home’ country. Despite often being an integral understanding of oneself, it primarily exists as a notion of absence. A by-product of my family’s varying relationships with leaving ex-Yugoslavia – now Bosnia – has given me agency in building an independent interpretation of where I am from and understanding what my idea of ‘Self’ was built from. The understanding of how one is connected to their past – even one that is not necessarily their own lived experience – falls to the movement of stories and objects passed from distant hands to familiar hands, to one’s own hands.