Confabulation, 2025
Duration: 2:15
Confabulation aims to explore the fluidity of memory through the reanimation of a set of altered disposable photographs. This video imagines the missing ‘in-between’ moments between each frame, further depicting the nature of memory. This work is paired with an orchestral score that gradually layers and decomposes over time, reflecting how memories drift, overlap, and reshape themselves. Confabulation is ultimately about what can form in these gaps between what we remember, what we’ve lost or what has been erased.
This artwork was completed in collaboration with the musician and producer, Lucot (@lucot_music ).
Confabulation as video installation
In Confabulation, the projection mapping turns the wall of photographs into a stage where confabulation plays out in real time. The moving imagery is mapped back onto the altered prints so that new, generated transitions literally overlay the damaged surfaces, echoing how the mind fills gaps in memory with invented detail. The photographs are organized into a grid that recalls image feeds and archives, the way photos and memories are sorted and consumed today. As that grid erodes through gaps, overlaps, and slight misalignments, it hints at the moment when orderly recall gives way to confabulation, when structure remains but certainty dissolves. By projecting reconstructed sequences onto these unstable fragments, the work shows memory not as a fixed record but as an active process of reassembly. The mapping makes visible how both visual systems and the mind create convincing continuities out of incomplete, decaying traces.