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Memory Bank is the first published book by Kent Andreasen in collaboration with Witty Books in Italy.
The idea of writing an outline for this book has caused me stress for a long time. If I had wanted to be a writer, it’s something I would actively be doing and would probably be broke.
Previously, I half-heartedly wrote a piece that I tried to cleverly explain the work I had made, which I now know falls flat. After all, this feels like a thought experiment in many ways. Nonetheless, here I am again as a result of a conversation I had with a friend of mine, Matthew Freemantle.
He is a well-known South African poet and writer with a knack for seeing through my facade. I say this because I presented him with the dummy of this book to look over, and he called for a meeting to discuss his "findings." Up until this point, I had shown a few people the work, and most said they enjoyed it but didn't seem to have really looked at it. And I mean really looked at it.
I was eager to hear what he said because I respect his opinion and knew he wouldn’t hold back. We started chatting, and he revealed that the book had a certain darkness and pain that he wasn’t expecting. He was the second person who had said this.
I found myself at a review in Montana a few weeks prior to this interaction, and Jenia Fridyland expressed the same notion—that the book was laced with people in pain.
This got me thinking. Maybe that is what this is about: my own internal struggle with myself and my attempt to resolve aspects of my work through memory, my life in South Africa, and these frameworks that I create for myself. Matthew also said he doesn't normally advise artists to write about their own work but knew that the work was so personal that there may not be someone equipped to pull back the veil.
At the end of the day, each image makes sense to me and is more about figuring things out than making something cohesive. A trail of consciousness that comes at you like a fever dream and hopefully only lets up when you get to the end. I often didn’t enjoy making this work because it felt so self-absorbed, but now that it’s done, I see it was necessary.
Dad’s Gun
For the longest time I thought this was the gun my uncle took his life with .
My Brother, Storme’s Brain Scans.
White Peacock
Heaven/Hell
Money $
Brother Storme
Near Drowning
Treasures
Coleface
A Great Storm
Jack at the Barnacle
Over Achiever
A Tale Of Two Oceans
Tammy & Jani
Zander Blom
Clover Circle
100 Hundred Trillion Zim $
Jasper Moving Out
Tattoo Details On Spencer
Johno Mellish
A place of conflict
Bayreuth, Germany- My First Art Residency
Love Is Cruel
These were found in a camera bag given to me by my dad. The bag belonged to my Gran’s husband(Not My Grandfather)who she built her dream house with in a idyllic coastal town in South Africa.
Tragically he was taken from her by a heart attack on the night they moved into the house.
Kodachrome EXP 1988- R6.83
A Man With A Very Long Neck
Grand Canyon
National Geographic-Birth Month|Year
Armco
Johannesburg
Candle, Windhoek
Dolphin
Balancing Act
Sensory Deprivation- “Love Hurts”
Smoke Over The Atlantic
Michelle, From Another Life
Found Objects From My First US Road trip
Mine Dump, Northern Province
The Hunter
Superman
Blizzard Dog
The Mason’s, Florida Court
Sand Flies- Izzy
Girls Sing
Bath
Table Moutain
Smokers
Power Shortages
Surf Towel
Cape Point
9-5 Panic Attack
CA$TING CALL
Reconstruction Of Dan’s Ordeal
My Longest Day
Finland
Burnt Out Vehicles
Camera Fix
Murmuration
A Shank I Found Outside My First House
Burnt down church, Redelinghuys
Coins
Bayreuth
Nina
Million Dollar Baby
My Dad Looks Like Clint Eastwood
Roberto
Evening Swim
Anico Being Vulnerable
You Are Here
Camera Trap Outside My Family Home
Boy Band
Left To Right . Sion, Jules, Roman, Matteo
Pixelation
What’s Left
Gemma
Trash Can
Butterfly Sunset
My Fractured Hand After Being Attacked
11 March 2012- I only found this date out because of my medical records
Death Is Going To Be Easy Because Life Is Hard
T-Shirt Detail
Accra, Ghana
Emily
Church Play
Dead Whaleshark
Lockdown Views
Jan
Coin Collector
Recognition Test
My Dad’s Golf Glove
Alec Soth’s Songbook
AI-
fig 1.
Memory Bank?
fig 2.
What Do You Look Like?
Jeff & Cherry Lee
The wonderful lab owners who develop my film.
Rhett Delivering Planes
Ball Collector
Black Swan
São Paulo
Gravestone
Living in your car
Roberto’s Head
89 Birds Of Prey- i
89 Birds Of Prey- ii
Col. White Fang
Border War
Nile Crocodile
Ode To Eggleston
Make-Up Test
Suburban Geisha
Harddrive
A Long Time
Hair Samples
H2O
102- Home Away From Home
Frozen Mouse
Memories Of Steph & Raph
Coming & Going
Dead Weight
Death Grip
Sasha
Rehearsal Break
Late Books
The Twins
- Damien & Jason
Aberdeen, Washington State
This is the town where Kurt Cobain grew up.
“Come as you are”
Bibles Verse/Nirvana Hit
Smiley
This is all I can see from that day
Yin Yang
Guardian Angel
Rese Sleeping
Me & The Mud
Lonely Soul
Climbers
Joff & Nadav
Tarantula
Jude
Dead/Drunk
Wu Tang
Khayelitsha
“Postcards” From Home
White Rock
Chasing Fires
William Sheepskin
My Friend & Assistant
Andrew & Lee
Fishhoek Post Office
Paper Jet
Airforce
Rese
Watch Tan//Busted Hand 10:58
Fall Line
Luci “Bullet”
Feathers
Bristol
A Photograph of David Goldblatt
By Meghan Ho-Tong
This is the first darkroom print I made for someone other than myself .
Apple Bong
My Astro Van
Sierra Nevada
Johannesburg Skyline
The Place Of My Birth and a city that shaped the way my parents interact with their lives.
A damaged photograph of me and an imprint of a gold star from one of my first “artworks”.
Moon,Man and Child
Crossnage
Blind Track Star
Red Engine Block
Homeless
My Ultrasound
Uv Damage
Puzzles On Puzzles
Colour Coded
Street Performer
Paarl
Yellow Rock, Orange River
You Are Here
Church
Can/Cannot - A letter from my parents just before I was born.
Kinshasa
3 Manic Days
Broken Leg
Friends On Mushrooms
Rims
Alex’s Ribs
Quarry, Bottlarey Road
The “Ritz”
Oil Painting, Bayreuth
Speeding
80 in a 50 zone
Ox Blood
Marolize Southwood
Overseen On A Flight
Caesar
Birth Certificate
Igshaan Adam’s Studio
Cape Town
First Art
Quagga Foal
Callen
Jamie- Suction Therapy
White Oak
Fake?
Mali on Ice
Luke’s Broken Nose
West Coast Vampire
The Morning I got sober.
Appaloosa Foal
Of War
Curtain
Trainspotting
Offices
