Artwork Information

Mahnoor Ali Shah

Memory Flashbacks, 2025
Video Projection on Fabric

Memory Flashbacks explores the intersections of memory, perception, and
neurodivergence, drawing from my personal experience of living with epilepsy.
As a child, I often found myself isolated—peers kept their distance, and
connection felt out of reach. In that solitude, nature became my refuge. I would
speak to trees, grass, and the wind; when they moved, I believed they were
responding. These encounters shaped how I understood presence,
communication, and care beyond human interaction.
In this installation, I return to those moments using images of landscape,
elements of nature, and my own body as vessels of memory. The movement,
layering, and fragmentation within the visuals reflect the way memories
resurface—disjointed, unpredictable, yet vivid. This work does not follow a
single, linear narrative; instead, it echoes the experience of flashbacks, the
sensation of time folding in on itself, and the complexity of sensing the world
differently.
By embracing the nonlinear and the personal, my practice offers space for
alternate ways of seeing, being, and remembering—where internal worlds are
made visible and the margins become sites of reflection and possibility.

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