Please enjoy this virtual reality experience of Elly Heise's exhibition Looking Back. You can experience this exhibition through VR or your browser through this link here:


Looking Back:

Memories are often augmented by our own imaginations or simply by the time that has elapsed between then and now. Navigating the spaces these memories are stored in can be difficult, as some are buried deep within the tunnels of our minds or fused with other occurrences. Looking Back plays with this premise as it explores four intersecting realms.

Influenced by famed neurologist Oliver Sacks, Looking Back considers his theory on imaginative memory. Sacks expressed that imaginative memory can be understood as a subconscious process where our minds fill in memory gaps in the absence of external verification. Heise's reimagination and navigation of her own family archives demonstrates this theory.

Looking Back also flirts with spatial engagement and the interpretation of surrealist realms. It explores spaces somewhere between the psychological and the corporeal, a membrane between the physical world and the imaginative. These intersecting realms structure the show, asking us to reflect on the spaces where our memories and extensions of ourselves reside.

Soundscape Artist: Matthew Davies
Curator and Developer: Ignazio Nicastro
XR Assistant: Luigi Nicastro

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