‘An Enclosed Misplacement’ is an installation based on Matt Plezier’s memory of the teenage rooms of his aunts and uncles in the 70’s. As spaces of discovery. With this installation Matt explores the ways in which diasporic memory is constructed and performed through identity, everyday objects and place. By constructing this installation in a unused gym shower room, he reveals and amplifies the feeling of out of placelessness challenging the notion of home reflecting the status of diaspora. Investigating how place, a spatial experience like a teenage room, can manifest via a work of art. While Memory plays an important role in shaping a diasporic sense of belonging. Forgetting, erasure and absence are maybe more recealing about the role of our history. And maybe even more important. History is never merely the act of compiling a chronology of events. As William Faulkner states: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.”

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Construction built by: Johan In Hout

Photo's: Jake Caleb