Ilona Glastonbury's photostream

In his seminal work “The Poetics of Space” Gaston Bachelard posits that ‘the house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind’. Ilona Glastonbury’s works open up a visual discourse with this notion, working with a collective consciousness while maintaining the intimacy of an individual’s recollection.

Bachelard, G. (1994) The Poetics of Space ,Beacon Press, Massachusetts, P6

‘ if we return to the old home as nest, it is because memories are dreams, because the home of other days has become a great image of lost intimacy’
gaston bachelard
the poetics of space

Ilona Glastonbury is an artist and researcher whose work explores notions of bodied/ impregnated spaces and absence as it relates to these spaces. From this comes a fascination with memory and the intimate textures of memory.