Scenes From a Lost Family Album
Triin Kerge
Nominated by
ISSP
Scenes From a Lost Family Album explores memory, loss, and the fragile permanence of family history. Inspired by the disappearance of my own family albums, the work evokes nostalgia for a past that can no longer be fully retrieved.
The series consists of embroidered photographs, where each stitch becomes a bridge between past and present. By layering thread onto images of vanished family moments, absence is transformed into presence, and memory into material form.
The work invites reflection on the universal desire to preserve family bonds, while
acknowledging the distance and estrangement that accompany what is forgotten or lost.
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The Artist
Triin Kerge
Nominated in
By
ISSP
Lives and Works in
Tallinn
Triin Kerge is an artist based in Estonia and Italy. She works primarily with photography,
embroidery, and archival materials. Her practice explores memory, home, and identity through her own photography, found photographs, and family archives, focusing on how images shift over time through material-based processes. By combining photographic processes with slow, material-based techniques, she examines how images change over time and how meaning shifts through repetition, material transformation, and physical engagement with images. Kerge is interested in the material instability of photographs and in how images function as carriers of personal and cultural memory. Her work is research-driven and often developed as long-term projects that bring together archival research, material experimentation, and image-making across different contexts and locations.
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