LONDON, ENGLAND.- StART SPACE will present Corinne Charton: Twin Obsession, 29th September – 5th November. Do we remember through photographs or do we remember through living? Corinne Charton’s new body of work investigates further the world of nostalgia as well as the individual’s perception of remembrance reclaiming memories from moments frozen in time by the shutter of the camera while recreating somatic sensations by using the traditional medium of oils as a paradigm for painting.

In an attempt to ascertain which part of us has been shaped by lived sensory experiences and what maybe an amalgam derived from events lived via mass media such as childhood iconology, she attempts to explore how memory itself can be manipulated. Photography plays an important part in her work, as she examines past photographs of her own childhood questioning the truth and authenticity frozen in a specific moment.

While placing nostalgia at the centre of her practice, Corinne does not allow its emotion to consume her paintings and instead uses nostalgia subversive qualities to underpin her own recollections while other sources of inspiration, such as photographs from a family album of a young couple with their twin boys, bought at a car boot sale, question further her own identity and existence – and that of others.

By introducing strangers into her very own familiar spaces she attempts/pretends to give them a new and more recent history thereby temporarily preventing traces of their existence to disappear in oblivion while also questioning if things would have been different had other people inhabited scenery and backdrops of her childhood and vice versa.

Nostalgia then, is not simply about the glorification of bygone times but also an attempt to hold onto it or deconstruct it - not only in the surface image. Nostalgia: Images of escapism or psychological analysis? Corinne Charton was born in France and studied at Central St Martins in London.