About

My Ama (grandmother), Agong (grandfather), and my mom reside in America, a country that is not their homeland; a homeland where I haven’t been able to visit. The distance between myself and their homeland is filled with a desire and yearning that builds a landscape that I piece together to form an archive. I continue to build and maintain this archive through familial stories, heirlooms, and daily acts in life that I relate to my desire.
I explore distance and desire within and outside my familial history, allowing myself to navigate unknown landscapes where “nothing” acts as a potential. Where one can imagine what could, will, and has taken place. “Nothing” occurs more in our daily lives and histories than what we know. What we don't know and what we can't see, hear, or explore creates an exciting potential to navigate. Nothing is something, and understanding what can happen when something is lost or missing is a crucial exercise that I partake in and ask the viewer to do the same.
As I continue to navigate “nothingness”, I build an archive where I explore potentials and connect them together, allowing a viewer to cruise histories, scenes of play and rebellion, and build connections through their distance in relation to what is being shown.

Contact: 
imogengosnell@gmail.com

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