JULIE BRETON | MÉMOIRES No.4 - abstract collage
JULIE BRETON | MÉMOIRES No.2 - abstract collage
The MÉMOIRES series explores the fragmented and shifting nature of memory. Drawn from photographs, places and moments remembered, each work brings together fragments of colour, line and image to suggest something familiar yet difficult to fully retrieve.
Working with translucent paper, graphite, coloured pencil, acrylic, canvas and found imagery, I build the compositions in layers—allowing marks to appear, disappear and overlap.
Vintage photographs and postcards discovered in local antique shops introduce traces of other lives and places, blurring the boundary between personal memory and imagined histories.
Rather than documenting a particular moment, the work evokes the way memories are return to us: incomplete, altered by time and often unexpectedly vivid, creating compositions reminiscent of the fleeting moment.