The present MA thesis focuses on presenting the medium of photography in the context of documenting memories and acknowledges the diverse possibilities of art practices encompassing archives through the work of a selection of contemporary artists. In my thesis, I present the relevance of family albums and offer ideas how their form will develop in the future. This is followed by considering collective and individual memories with their connection to an individual’s elementary family and the environment they grew up in. I then observe how objects are stored and how useful they are as well as their role of materialised memories. The focus is put on an object, its ontology, still life in connection to commercial photography and unmonumentality in the context of contemporary art practices. All the aspects are then summed up and included in the practical part of the thesis in the form of a fictive virtual exhibition and an accompanying catalogue.
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