The Archive of Lost Memories @MASS MoCA
Transporting the contents of her studio from Los Angeles to North Adams, Randi Malkin Steinberger has created a workspace at MASS MoCA that functions simultaneously as an installation, archive, and cabinet of curiosities. The Archive of Lost Memories holds a treasure trove of the artist’s own photographs alongside images found at estate sales, antique markets, and on eBay. Steinberger gives these abandoned photographs new life by arranging, categorizing, and transforming them with materials such as thread and nail polish. Salvaging once-precious, now-forgotten moments, she prompts us to imagine the stories these images might tell. Read More
