MADA
  • Empty Lounge Room Digital print
    110 x 165 cm
Nikki Richardson
Bachelor of Arts
and Bachelor of Visual Arts
nikki.l.richardson@gmail.com

Aunty Val never threw anything away; each possession had a special place in her home - a time capsule of memories.

My practice in the archive has been inspired my late Great Aunt's house and all of her possessions inside. The act of categorizing and listing objects occurred during the process of clearing the house.

The final work of lists, photo and video documentation and a compiled book of her books, act as a complete record of a complex collection and documentation of a space transformed. The home and objects within it that so deeply revealed her personality are disappearing as the space becomes empty.

The resulting archive attempts to acknowledge possessions and memories of a vanished person that will live on through this documentation, and the preservation of her home in this state becomes a memorial to her even after the house has been emptied.