9.8″x6.7″; vintage found photographs, tracing paper and fragments from vintage photo albums, paper from vintage books, staples, paper glue and tape; 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Matria.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Recollecting
at Galleria Matria in Milan, Italy
19 September-12 December 2025
How do we remember—and what remains of those memories once we do? Danish artist Anne Misfeldt tackles these questions in “Recollecting: The Shape of Memory”, her new solo exhibition. The show transforms everyday fragments into poetic reflections on the elusive, shifting nature of memory. Rather than treating memory as a fixed archive, Misfeldt approaches it as a living, breathing act of reconstruction. Her collages—built from old photographs and documents she has gathered across Europe, layered with her own impressions—don’t simply retell stories; they reinvent them. The result is a delicate interplay between the personal and the collective, where the past becomes less about what happened and more about what we imagine might have.
Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Matria
The show is anchored by three immersive installations that bring Misfeldt’s vision to life: An ever-changing wall of collages, rearranged and replaced over time, echoes the way memories shift each time we revisit them. A constellation of suspended collages invites visitors to literally walk through memory, experiencing it as sensation rather than record. A contemporary Wunderkammer—a cabinet of curiosities combining objects, mementos, and collages—encourages curiosity and play, turning memory into a creative laboratory. An artist’s book, crafted from a reconstructed family photo album, adds another layer—half archival, half imagined—blurring the boundary between what was lived and what is remembered.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
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