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The Digital Arts Gallery presents AFFLICTION a solo show dedicated to the work of MIKE GOLDING. Online exhibition runs from 08 December to 11 January 2009.

MIKE GOLDING digital works deal with history and memory taking issue with the past and its authority. Golding employs historical objects not only in social terms, but also as metaphors for the personal and psychological effects of the past. In recent works he used English stately home mirrors as subject matter. In “Mimic” he digitally altered his father's photographic archive to consider aspects of memory and psychological The past haunts us because we believe that it makes us who we are. The psychotherapist, when meeting a patient for the first time, will begin by drawing out the narrative that an individual has constructed to assimilate their life experience. MIKE GOLDING digital works deal with history and memory taking issue with the past and its authority. Golding employs historical objects not only in social terms, but also as metaphors for the personal and psychological effects of the past. In recent works he used English stately home mirrors as subject matter. In “Mimic” he digitally altered his father's photographic archive to consider aspects of memory and psychological formation.