“Things We Keep” is a visual communication design project developed by Cagla Camcioglu, from Turkey. The exhibition will took place in Istanbul, Turkey, this next friday and saturday, 20 and 21 June.
Here’s an excerpt taken from Caglas’s website:
Something to hold on to, to keep in mind, to guard and to preserve…
We all have bits and pieces, vague traces and fragments of past moments or events kept in our memory. We all reflect upon our past from time to time, trying to create a mental picture to relive in a moment long gone.
Time is irreversible, we cannot take back time, we cannot experience a moment more than once. Even the most cherished or loathed memories of events decay and become lost to us over time. There seems to be no cure for this forgetting phenomenon but one: keeping things.
As our memories erode, the souvenirs from our past start taking on a new mission; scraps of paper with notes scribbled, ephemera, trinkets, kept objects give us the opportunity to touch, see, feel and even smell the past without having to go back there. The things we keep don’t have to mean much extrinsically, but a great amount of feeling and memory is contained inside. Feelings and memories are the secrets between us and the objects that are kept.
Here are my entries for the exhibition:
A butter can from a Brazilian brand called Aviação, in activity since 1920.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – vintage objects.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – since 2007.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it is old fashioned.
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Coke miniature bottles (3 inches tall), limited edition, sold in Brazil in the early ‘80.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – nostalgic objects.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – since 1984.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it’s a nostalgic object and I like Coca-Cola.
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19th century picture, the Coca-Cola early years.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – vintage objects.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – came from my parents.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it is old fashioned.
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A picture of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – vintage objects.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – came from my parents.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it is old fashioned.
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A pin from USSR that a friend gave me when traveling there, short after the Perestroika.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – things from other countries.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – since 1998.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it’s history.
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“Adventure World Map” is a poster featuring cartooned representation of famous stories like Robinson Crusoe, Toilers of the Sea, The Three Musketeers, Ben-Hur, Don Quixote, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Around the World in Eighty Days, Robin Hood, One Thousand and One Nights and many others.
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» WHAT DO YOU KEEP? – nostalgic objects.
» FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IT? – since 1986.
» WHY DO YOU KEEP IT? – because it’s nostalgic and I like adventure stories.
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