"In her exhibition at Thomas Nickles Gallery, entitled I Remember this Room, Sánchez combines imagery of inaccessible memories—manifested by stand-alone, room-sized crates with no obvious entrance—with images of eerily beautiful interiors, spiraling staircases and seductive, yet deserted, parlors. Each image has been whitewashed, inviting the viewer to read these rooms through a personal lens. Are they scenes of potential, to be filled by the characters, colors and gestures of human imagination? Or are they sites of grief so profound that they were either completely erased or locked behind an impenetrable exterior? Both scenarios can be true, like heads and tails of a coin toss. This inherent duality also reflects the integration of the unconscious and conscious, which Jung argued constitutes “the self.”
