José Parlá

This catalogue was created to coincide with ENGRAMS, an exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá.

An engram is the physical trace a memory leaves in the brain – a living, ever-shifting pattern that reactivates and reshapes itself each time it is recalled. By this understanding, memory is reconstruction rather than retrieval, and the act of remembering becomes a creative gesture in its own right – the principle that underpins the series.