Susan Magnus: IMAGEAFTER

GARRISON ART CENTER
September 21, 2024 - October 27, 2024

Susan Magnus created Imageafter in response to photographs, film negatives, and artifacts she inherited after her mother’s cognitive decline and death. Reflecting on these materials, she found the vulnerability and deterioration of the analog snapshots emblematic of the fleeting nature of memory and the inevitability of loss. Moreover, objects from the landscape of her mother’s life—some pristine, others in disrepair—were not only a source of remembrance but insistent reminders of the fugitive nature of all things. Initially, exploring this familial archive was a way to process grief and past events; over time, it compelled her to transform images and objects into works of art that explore impermanence, absence, and the residue of personal and collective narratives we leave behind.