Maïté Seimetz

Photographer. Born on 6 August 1969 in Turku, Finland, I have lived and worked in Luxembourg since 1996. Education: 1996 Master’s in Education, specialising in Fine Arts and Art History, Université de Turku; 1994 St. David’s University College, Lampeter, United Kingdom.

With the series presented here, I wanted to explore the idea of a physical place as a construction of a collective experience or memory.

I used multiple overlapping exposures from different viewpoints, with the idea that each of these layers represents an individual memory or experience of a particular place. In this case, the place is more of an industrial object with a special significance for Luxembourgers. The idea is that each person experiences and remembers a specific place slightly differently or sees it from a different angle. From these experiences and memories, a unique monument emerges – concrete and physical but intangible and ephemeral at the same time. Very much like the way our own memories or dreams tend to be.