About my mind, I could tell you when it’s full or empty, when the thoughts run rapidly and when there’s peace, but I would stop here because what really happens inside is something I don’t know.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t realize a more or less scientific representation, maybe through an installation, about what happens when we remember.

Refik Anadol has conducted a series of experiments at the Neuroscape Laboratory of the University of California and he has investigated thanks to them on the neural mechanism of the cognitive control with an electroencephalogram that measures the changes of the mind in waves. At that point, he had the algorithm that he needed for the installation, Melting Memories, a multidimensional structure that combines data paintings, light projections and augmented data sculpture.

To simplify, that decomposed movement that seems to be made of sand is what really happens when, after searching for several minutes, we finally remember where we put the keys.