Print Media

Rememory

Dayana Marden

Exhibition

See it On Campus: Level 1

Zone 4, by the single elevator next to media resources

Visitor Info

Rememory, 6ft x 3.5ft. 2026, monotype, chine colle, stone lithography, plate lithography, copper etching.

I have visited the ayul (Kazakh for “village”) where my father grew up every year, witnessing both the gradual disappearance of the place and the rapid decay of abandoned buildings left behind by families who moved away, unable to maintain or repurpose their properties. During these visits, my father would take us on walks through the village streets, sharing stories about what once existed there: who lived on a certain street corner, the dog that chased him and his classmates, the dried-up lake where they submerged wooden rafts, the corner shop with a furniture store above it. I began building a story map of the place through imagery of fragmented architecture, snapshots into the mundane and spoken memories.

Through layering in printmaking, I began to mirror the layering of memory itself, exploring the duality of what once existed and what remains. The work reflects how a single place can hold multiple histories at once, shaped differently across generations and through different eyes.

Copper etching

Remnants, copper etching on silk tissue paper and BFK Rives 250gsm, chine colle, 2026.

untitled, copper etching on BFK Rives 250 gsm, chino colle, 2026

Lithography

Monotype Explorations

Chkalovo, Monotype, 9″ x 12″ each, 2026.

Related work

Earlier work exploring the loss of home, how migration affects the people and the place. In Borderless, the dispersed figures leave empty imprints on the vast valleys that are plastic bags pressed onto the surface, mimicking an aerial view of land. The blank cut outs underscore how migration changes both people and place. The Weight of Home reflects the search for safety amid the loss of familiarity, evoking the burden carried when home is no longer secure.