Mena
    Assad

Through my practice, I am concerned with examining long-accepted ‘objective’ truths about history and psychology and seek to put it through a critical process to reveal it to be subjective, contingent, and grounded in memory and historicity. The subject of my work depicts memory as a collection of dreamlike hallucinations that we have forced into a unified shape and forged into something that is at once comforting and unimaginably remote, accepting it as natural truth and in the process, creating uncontrollable anxieties within our very structure.

The various pieces that make up my work don’t slot together conventionally, instead they flash in and out of each other with dreamlike whimsy. They are perpetually swinging between the oneiric nature of representational remembrance and the apparent-lucidity of episodic memory, blurring the real and the fantastical, the memories and the vision, questioning that if memory can’t be defined then how can we, with great confidence, have a objective and progressive view of history.

I am self-represented and take clients on a limited basis.
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