Odette England

My work explores issues of identity, perception and confusion as they relate to memory. I strive to represent the illusion and distraction of how we feel about being ‘ourselves' and where we come from. My aim is to raise issues of how we perceive memory and how little we understand about its intimate relationship to personality, mood, mental state and geography.

I am particularly interested in the complexities of recording and assigning identity through photography, and how it can reflect, misrepresent or complicate a situation. I therefore use the camera as my tool for probing the difficult relationship between the image and the ‘real', and for rediscovering who we think we are versus who others say we are.