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Philippe Dodard
/PHILIPPE DODARD, MAPPING MEMORY: THE NEW WORLD, 2009 , Ink on paper mounted on canvas 9 x 22” x 30
TEXT BY BABACAR M BOW
Place memory provides a model for understanding how Philippe Dodard’s mnemonics generate the semantic dynamism and social construction of Haitian historical thought. Recollection as practiced by Haitians is neither an account nor a pedigree such as genealogy, but a meaningful configuration of selected, negotiated events around loci memory.
A locus of memory or site memory is a landmark around which past events structure present memory. As both actual and imagined places, site memory can be topoi—that is, both places and topics, where mnemonics converge.
The association of memories with spaces of intimacy is topoanalysis. The house where we spent our earliest years is inscribed in us. It is outside time in the sense that it preceded our being in the world, and we return to it constantly as the singular, preeminent experience of habitation. The house and its rooms can be “read” for they are the psychological diagrams of the subconscious. Philippe Dodard’s Site Memory is an imaginary space designed to store and preserves the collective knowledge of humanity. It must be read as an architectonic model of and for human history, to exist in and occupy the mind.
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