Name: DOCUMENTIA BY BENJAMIN KAPLAN
Start: 2022-09-24T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-26T12:00:00-06:00
Location: The Gallery at the Kranzberg

DOCUMENTIA BY BENJAMIN KAPLAN

Kranzberg Arts Foundation

Half hour private gallery appointment to view Benjamin Kaplan's Documentia Exhibit.

The Gallery at the Kranzberg

Dementia is described in many ways. Forgetfulness, absent-mindedness, senility, mental decay. Words did not matter as I watched my grandfather decline over 10 years, my grandmother over five, and, subsequently, my father over the past four.

As family members and caretakers, we navigate shifts in personality, manage paranoia, and witness the way our loved ones&#x27; brains crowd out new memories in favor of a continuous loop of past recollections. I watched my grandparents and then my father regress into their younger selves, believing everyone to be either family or enemy or both, communicating sense and emotion as vividly as when they were children

These moments always catch present-day loved ones by surprise. Perhaps best described as hallucinations, the seemingly coherent becomes compressed within the twisted confines of a declining mind. 

But is there refinement in that compression? Can beauty be harvested from the segments? Do these memories serve as a map, a document, an atlas to long-forgotten enchantments? Is it possible to imagine this disease, with its cruelty and corruption, as a chronicler of times long forgotten, an excavator of essential moments, a strange documentarian? 

Documentia is a series of digital collages inspired by and in direct response to these recollective narratives. A body of work created in celebration of the dementia mind, Documentia visualizes the compression, the overlap, the incongruous conversations between memory and sense that occur in that human container. This exhibit invites viewers to contemplate their own stories and sense memories to consider how they organize shards of experience into novel constructions.
**Please reserve one ticket per person. Due to internal scheduling requirements, appointments must be made 24 hours in advance.**It is possible that different groups will arrive at the same time due to our ticketing system, but rest assured that our space is large enough to accommodate social distancing for everyone. Our capacity for this show is 5 and we sell no more than 5 tickets per half hour appointment slot.If you are unable to make your appointment, please email katie@kranzbergartsfoundation.org or call (314)533-0367 ext 105. This helps us manage appointment availability and our workflow for the day. Should you be interested, we will also assist with rescheduling at this time.Info on our COVID-19 policies can be found <a href="https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/gallery-policies/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> . Please review it with your guests.Upon arrival to your appointment, please call (314)533-0367 ext 105. We will then let you into the gallery. Thank you!For inquiries or cancellations please call (314)533-0367 ext 105 or email katie@kranzbergarts.org

DOCUMENTIA BY BENJAMIN KAPLAN

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