ReMEMBER ME

In this series, Keogh reimagines the daguerreotype (once a pinnacle of early photography, now a forgotten relic) through contemporary materials and process. Using ferric chloride acid on stainless steel, she creates etched portraits whose reflective surfaces shift the image between positive and negative, depending on light and angle. Replacing the daguerreotype’s polished plate and velvet case with stainless steel and worn leather, Keogh grounds the work in her own distinctive material culture. The leather jackets, sourced from friends, her own archive, and the berlin‘s “for free boxes,” bear traces of past lives. Each puncture and mark becomes a metaphor for intimacy and memory, as the artist reflects on how we remember in an age of endless reproduction and rapid forgetting.