{"product_id":"remember-to-forget-mame-diarra-niang","title":"Remember to Forget","description":"\u003cp\u003eA carefully curated artist’s book, \u003cem\u003eRemember to Forget\u003c\/em\u003e is a tetralogy comprised of Mame-Diarra Niang’s series \u003cem\u003eCall Me When You Get Ther\u003c\/em\u003ee, \u003cem\u003eLéthé, Sama Guent Guii,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eÆther\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe works reflect on the abstraction of the Black body and the artist’s refusal to portray Blackness for herself and for others. Niang’s concept of the plasticity of territory as a constantly evolving and shifting entity is at the root of her work and is expanded here through different modes of non-portraiture. In these images, the self dissolves, vanishes, recedes, refracts, and appears fragmented and blurred. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the artist’s own words: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘My work is about memory and forgetting. What makes a self? I have come to think of the self as a territory made of well-curated memories and erasures. \u003cem\u003eRemember to Forget\u003c\/em\u003e places us where being itself is a forgotten monument; where even the most persistent conception of identity dissolves in front of us. We have to forget what we were in order to become anew... \u003cem\u003eNaître et n’être rien\u003c\/em\u003e.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished as a limited edition of 500 signed copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48800704168180,"sku":"9781915743565","price":163.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/9039\/7684\/files\/RememberToForget.jpg?v=1782993472","url":"https:\/\/roseflin.com\/products\/remember-to-forget-mame-diarra-niang","provider":"ROSEFLINT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}