Each limb a final gesture, a silent embrace of erasure.
The Right to be Forgotten (2024) is a series of untraceable portraits created by lens-based visual artist Alexandra Sarah. In a world where almost every detail, every aspect of our lives is always exposed and readily available to be dissected, the artist reflects on the evergrowing wish to dissolve, to be unbound from the grasp of recognition.
Each portrait is a quiet disappearance. There are no faces to remember; only gestures of release, fragments of presence slowly dissolving under the weight of blooms. The flowers do not merely surround the subject – they absorb them, softening the lines of identity until what remains is simply a breath, a shape, a memory left to rest. Guided by our – perhaps yet unrealised – desire for disappearance, for the right to vanish from the gaze of the world, the artist reimagines anonymity as a sanctuary.
Here, flowers do not adorn; they obscure, they devour, they protect.
