Sarita Zaleha

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Sarita ZalehaHome ABCsvideo of scanned screen prints00:00:20, loop2012  This video continues the exploration of the subject of home through learning and memory with the use of alphabet block letters and flashing cards. In this video, the letters appear in sequence to form words, and the words are organized in an order that produces what I consider to be a found poem.
Sarita ZalehaSkinpaper, thread, photography, monoprint, bark, found objects28 x 24”2010
My work explores the physical manifestations of memory with an attention to its points of failure. Objects and actions trigger and contain memories; my prints, videos, and interactive installations prompt and explore these memories. Viewers participating in my projects in effect re-perform familiar but forgotten or unnoticed cultural practices like filling out a home address in a form field, completing a donation card at the grocery store and adhering it to the wall, or tying a knot to remember something. Using material armatures of memory, my work invites viewers to confront their own thoughts and mark them in matter. Through these projects I seek to mobilize participants’ memories, creating physical sites for new memories to be made. Personal memory and collective memory come together as participants create a shared experience of my work through their interaction with it. Printmaking combined with digital technologies allows me to provide alternative contexts and scales for my projects as well as a range of conceptual references. My broad work on memory includes the use and examination of texts, repetition, and modularity. The repetition deployed in printmaking recalls modes of learning like rote memorization where ideas are imprinted into the mind through repeated exposure. Matter aids memory and through my work I hope to make people more aware of their own thought processes, their relationship to others and history. In combining text and image with an attention to material, I invite my audience to interact with my work on a variety of levels— sensorially and cerebrally— as the meaning of the experience unfolds over time. All images ©2010-2013 Sarita Zaleha. All rights reserved.
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