Through the integration of archival materials, personal photography, AI-generated imagery, and tactile media, Sander Coers investigates how memory, identity, and history are constructed, preserved, and reinterpreted across generations.
A recurring color palette, extracted from the photograph of the artist’s grandfather in the Bali Post, unifies the works in The Paletter. This color scheme reappears in UV-printed archival photos on plywood, on which an oil-painted colored beam covers part of the image.
It creates a visual thread that links the pieces. By obscuring figures and details in the image, the work invites the viewer to consider how memory is both constructed and selective, shaped by nostalgia and loss.
The contrast between family context and abstraction emphasizes the way we look at the past, both reconstructing and idealizing it while hiding its darker realities.