The Uncertain Fragments of Memories: Hidden Memories From Childhood To Adulthood

The Uncertain Fragments of Memories, was a practice based research, lead to investigate and to analyse how telling memories, could help to draw and to expand into installation art. Luisa Menano developed a body of artwork focusing on the subject of enduring displacement that became more evident while doing her PhD. Being Portuguese, born in Mozambique and living in the UK became a real indication of what a person has to endure to find ones' self and to affirm ones' identity. The sense of not belonging to a country, to a place, does compel an individual to recall and relocate past vivid experiences to adapt to the new journey. Luisa Menano wanted to examine, the Self, Identity and Childhood Memories, to bring to light, not historical facts, but instead, she wanted to look and to explore through her art, personal sensations, passed on, through fragmented stories. The sense of loss from a lost motherland, was portrayed by Menano, in a very creative form, using gathered personal photographs, recorded sound to create installation art to mirror her and others' fragmented dreams.

Menano (Ph.D.) Luisa, is a researcher and an artist. Her research, encompasses the hidden memories from childhood to adulthood, exploring the relationship between time and place in a tangible direction with motherhood, displacement and diaspora.Her artwork is at private collections, she exhibits widely and also contributed to conferencies.