MEMORIES OF TOMORROW 2020
Installation view
Papyrus sheet, red thread,
100 x145 x 550 x cm
Shedhalle Zug
06. – 15.3.2020
Constructed entirely from papyrus sheets sewn together with red wool thread, Memories of Tomorrow evokes both ancient navigation and contemporary displacement. The boat-like structure recalls prehistoric papyrus vessels once used along the Nile and still made today in some countries, symbols of continuity amid change.
For Jacomella Bonola, this ark becomes a metaphor for survival in the Anthropocene: an object that carries humanity’s fragile hope across turbulent waters. Each of the 157 papyrus sheets, handmade in al-Qaramous, testifies to the endurance of craft and community under economic strain. Memories of Tomorrow transforms the tragedy of migration into an allegory of resilience, linking human journeying to the ecological crossing between past and future.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella