sister +++++ familial formations
Marian Abboud

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sister +++++ familial formations looks at the act of collecting, capturing, constructing, charting, ordering, relocating and deconstructing a family.

This work invites participants to join the family. It was influenced by the work of Rene Girard, a French-born philosopher and anthropologist, who was interested in the impact of violence, envy, rivalry, conflict and desire on society. sister +++++ familial formations questions the idea of identity by examining modifications and adaptations through sacred order, prohibition and the collective memory.

If memories belong to the individual, their associations extend far beyond the personal. They spread into an extended network of meaning that brings together the personal with the familial, the cultural, the economic, the social, and the historical. Memory work makes it possible to explore connections between “public” historical events, structures of feeling, family dramas, relations of class, national identity and gender, and “personal” memory. In these cases histories outer and inner, social and personal, historical and psychical coalesce; and the web of interconnections that binds them together is made visible.

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