Amanda Bradley’s solo exhibition, The land remembers the flood, at FAR Contemporary Gallery is an exercise in infiltrating and reimagining her personal archive. Bradley draws from past and present work, including photographs, stills, and short films taken in different locations throughout the Caribbean region. She explores how landscape can function as a visual threshold, catalyzing memory and claiming space for alternative interpretations of our own histories. 

The title of the exhibition references an essay by Toni Morrison that expands on the notion of living memory as a “form of willed creation”. For Morrisson, memory is expansive, invasive of the forgotten corners, imposing on the derelict gaps. In returning to past events and mining her personal archive, Bradley reckons with her own understanding of what occurred and how memory can extend itself through time, flooding into the present moment, like water deviated from its natural course finding its original path. 

Through her work, Bradley blurs the line between place and time across a scattered geography, calling on viewers to reexamine their own relationship to the land and how it informs both our domestic and exterior spaces. The cinematic vignettes Bradley incorporates into the exhibition extend the possibilities of the narrative, associating motion with memory, allowing viewers to connect through mirrored gestures of remembering.

On View until June 26, 2021