"WITHIN MY MAZE OF MEMORY"
In this immersive installation, Isadora Jackson transforms the culvert gallery at Co-Lab Projects in Austin, Texas, into a maze of image, light , shadow and sound. The exhibition considers memory as something we continually move through fragmented, reconstructed, obscured and reshaped by the present, and not as a fixed archive.
The project has developed through an ongoing dialogue between Jackson and curator Leslie Moody Castro during a residency in Mexico City in the summer of 2026 following a winter residency in Latvia in 2025.
Together, Jackson and Moody Castro recalled stories and memories passed down from family member- much of which was embellished as generations of familiar stories are- a discovery made while Jackson was in residence in Latvia. While moving together through museums, galleries, streets, conversations, and everyday encounters, Jackson and Moody Castro began thinking about the maze as both a physical structure and a way of understanding memory itself. Rather than presenting a linear narrative the installation asks what it means to navigate the past through partial images, recurring symbols and shifting association and spaces that alternately reveal and conceal.
Images from personal memory become less like illustrations of specific events and more like fragments of icons that surface , disappear and take on new meanings through their relationships to one another. A sound composition by Erik Jackson extend this experience beyond the visual, creating an atmospheric layer that moves through the installation and further destabilizes any single reading of the space.
The maze ultimately becomes a metaphor for remembering: There is no complete view from one position, and no return to memory exactly as it was. Instead the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit the uncertain state between recollection and reconstruction, moving physically through a landscape where personal memory continually encounters the present. this exhibition. This exhibition is supported in part by H-E-B, Texas Commission on the Arts, Individual Donors and members of Co-Lab Projects.