The documentary Don’t Forget to Remember features in an exploration of family memories of loved ones with dementia through art and film at the National Gallery
Students watch the artist Asbestos in the midst of erasing chalk drawings as part of his “Don't Forget to Remember” exhibition at the National Gallery. He’s wiping blackboards of work that have been displayed around Dublin for couple of years on the hour, every hour, starting Friday, throughout the weekend. The blackboards were created for the film of the same name, with each board depicting a memory of his mother Helena, who has Alzheimer’s.
A detail of chalk drawings displayed as part of the “Don't Forget to Remember” exhibition by Asbestos at the National Gallery. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/The Irish Times Matt and Helena O’Dwyer attended this week's screening of Don’t Forget to Remember at the National Gallery of Ireland. “People look at Alzheimer’s disease as a destruction of the person. People are terrified of it. When they think of themselves and losing their own memories, there is a terror in that. Only with your memories are you able to construct who you are. And as I watch the film again and again, I try to find the humour and silliness in it. Remembering in a holistic way brings more hope.”
Others too express the sense of guilt, frustration, anger, upset and loss experienced when a family member has dementia. The film was shown as part of the First Fortnight arts and mental health festival.
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