What do we carry with us? What survives when memory changes, fades, or is passed on? Memory is not fixed. It shifts, fragments, disappears, returns, and transforms over time. We carry traces of places, people, cultures, traditions, experiences, losses, and knowledge, some lived by us, others inherited or transmitted across generations. These traces shape the way we understand the present and, consciously or unconsciously, find their way into what we create.

The Shape of Memory explores memory not only as remembrance, but as a living process of carrying, preserving, transforming, and transmitting. What happens to knowledge as it moves from one person to another, from one generation to the next? What is preserved? What is altered? What is forgotten? And what new meaning is created in that transformation? Through different practices, materials, and perspectives, the artists explore the visible and invisible forms that memory can take, from personal experience and cultural inheritance to collective knowledge, repetition, absence, and loss. Following Stories of Uncertainty, this exhibition continues the conversation: if uncertainty asks us how we move through what we cannot know, The Shape of Memory asks us to consider what we carry with us as we move forward.

Perhaps memory is not simply something we keep. Perhaps every time we remember, preserve, translate, or create, we give memory a new shape.