When You Try to Do Everything, You Can’t Do Anything
Jason Hamilton

11 April - 4 May, 2025
MOM Gallery

This series of works is an experiment in both process and perception, transforming thousands of individual 4x6 inch photographs

into monumental assemblages - compositions that document the act of remembering. Photography is often seen as a way to freeze

time - to hold onto fleeting moments before they fade; but as time passes moments are perpetually broken apart, scattered, and

reconstructed. As the narrator in Chris Marker’s La Jetee (1962) remarks - “Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is

only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.”

Jason Hamilton physically deconstructs and reassembles images, a process of taping, fragmenting, and revelation that can reveal

the fragility in memory and gives in to the drive to recreate and preserve. These physical outcomes embrace the tangible to create

spaces to meditate on time, relationships, and connection. These re-assemblages use the past to consider the constantly shifting and

rediscovered moments we all carry with us.

Exhibition catalogue