Brinkburn Memories and Inventions/Architecture: Substance of Poetic Memories

“Brinkburn Memories and Inventions” is a montage of details collected through photography during the visit to Brinkburn Priory and Manor. It aims to capture the tangible and intangible aspects of that experience: the materiality of textures and construction elements, the presence of traces left by time, nature, and human activity, evoking histories and memories. These fragments are juxtaposed, intertwined, and blurred into one another, forming a unified whole—a floor to ceiling elevation—where the two buildings become one, as the exterior is paired with the interior, emphasizing the ambiguity of recollection, and celebrating the poetics of architectural invention. The ”Architecture: Substance of Poetic Memories” series expand the experience of the Brinkburn site to a wider recollection of autobiographical memories, including the Brion Cemetery by Carlo Scarpa, the wall by Sol Lewitt and the stone monument in Torviscosa, near the Adriatic Sea, all pre-formed elements of a personal, non-linear evocation of space and time. The montages have been showcases in the “Material and Memory” exhibition in Brinkburn (UK) and “Dreaming Architectures: transformation, stratification and rebirth of the architectures of the past” in Turin (Italy)