Lucy House, Pump Me Up, 2019,
Edited sound recorded from a foot-pump,
06:31
GOOGLE OWNS MY MEMORIES, 2019
[Detail view in online digital format]
Lucy House, Google Owns My Memories, 2019.
Series of digital collages combining screenshots of archived Google street-view images with scans of printed personal/family photographs.
All 34 x 17cm.
[Projected exhibition view]
Lucy and Laura Outside Manor Park Sauna, from
Lucy House, Google Owns My Memories, 2019.
Series of digital collages combining screenshots of archived Google street-view images with scans of printed personal/family photographs,
102 x 51cm.
Google Owns My Memories confronts the negative effects of gentrification and urban planning.
Gentrification has led to London becoming increasingly exclusive despite so many areas, such as Manor Park in Newham, East London, being so deprived and unsustainable to live in.
Gentrification has alienated and forced out so many people particularly those from disadvantaged areas.
Viewing archived Google street-view material going back to 2008, I was able to explore and reminisce my memories of Manor Park. I took screenshots of significant places with deep personal meaning and nostalgia, such as homes I have lived in, and reclaimed these lifeless digital spaces in which so many of my memories exist.
Scanned cut-out bodies from personal family photographs are inserted into these stolen street-view backdrops, creating impossible family scenes.
These images linger in a realm between fantasy and reality; suspending my most treasured memories, of a place no longer accessible to me, within a piece of data which is owned and copyrighted by a global corporation.