oded ezer at the V&A

still from ‘customer’ by oded ezer

graphic artist and typographer oded ezer has created eight typographic videos for the memory palace exhibition that opens later this month at the victoria and albert museum in london. the show, which brings together a new work of fiction by the author hari kunzru with 20 original commissions from leading graphic designers will run from 18 june – 20 october, 2013.

—following text from oded ezer

eight fragments of memory that oded ezer reconstructs through his eight videos, none of which is able, on its own, to re-establish the whole as one find of a new archaeology of knowledge.

the eight fragments can only point to, suggest or evoke the whole they were part of in the past, be it a long or short time ago. alternatively, the videos can be viewed as individual, autonomous elements whose very partial nature turns into something else, gradually embracing new meanings and interpretations – irregular polyhedrons floating freely across time and space, visible to different eyes, from different distances and different angles.

his recollections are deeply etched in memory – at times scary, incomprehensible, poetic, repetitive, useless. moving images which are projected onto the screen of his eyes and are then bounced back onto the white wall where they make up an unusual mosaic that anyone can see and share.

do not look for an order or a sequence or, if you want to, do find one by putting together the fragments in total freedom, as in pessoa’s the book of disquiet, where days, months and seasons – and tales with them – mix following no apparent rule, in a time that cannot be just linear.

still from ‘customer’ by oded ezer