Reflective Encounters

“In my memories, my grandparents’ house always basks in the sunlight of a hot early afternoon of mid-June. The apricot tree I can see from the kitchen window is ripe – the fruits’ sweet taste and the bright orange of their skin are exceptionally vivid in my mind. In my head, I can go back there whenever I want while random snippets of conversations with my grandma get stuck in between ephemeral images of the time we spent together. A hug, a question – when will you be back? – a whirlwind of warmth and pain. It’s all that there is now.

Jorge Aguilar Rojo’s Our Perpetual Now explores similar territories, plunging into a memoryscape ravished by grief and solitude. After losing his partner Elise way too soon, Tom receives a call from a colleague who needs him to go through Elise’s hard drive. Sudden and perhaps unwelcome, this is a chance for Tom to piece together fragments of the moments he shared with the woman he loved. Shards of past conversations echo through this colourful dreamspace where what is now lost seems to be, forever again, within reach.”

— Ren Scateni