SERIES: In the Noise, I Almost Remember You

In the Noise I Almost Remember You presents a body of photographs attentive to the disconnection of the human body from itself and from the natural world. Lena C. Emery creates images that hover. Figures appear unsettled, caught between states, never fully arriving. The city emerges in fragments, humming in the background. A flicker rather than a fixed location, it functions less as a site than a persistent atmosphere conditioning perception and experience. Clouds move through the work, not only as forms in the sky but as reflections of interior life. Their shifting and unstable forms mirror feelings of disorientation, longing, and unease, while the body appears suspended between itself and the environments it moves through.

Emery approaches photography not as a means of explanation or capture, but as a way of questioning perspective. Her images allow an awareness of the apparent estrangement, from both nature and the body itself, until that separation begins to register as a form of forgetting. Rather than offering resolution, the work holds these tensions in suspension. Disconnection and return coexist. 

The images remain open in this way, less concerned with statement than with attention itself, and with photography’s capacity to return us, however briefly, to the appearance of things.

“We learn to belong to the city, and slowly we forget 

what it means to belong to the Earth.” – Lena C. Emery