Irreversible Order

Lisa Donneson’s Irreversible Order examines how memory, aging, and cultural identity cohere into visual form. Engaging Proustian cues—the scent of coffee, the warmth of freshly baked bread, remnants of a shifting American landscape—she activates desire, loss, humour, and latent trauma as material for image-making. Her use of a performative double within domestic space foregrounds the slippages between reenactment and recollection, allowing humour to unsettle the gravity of remembered experience. Through these iterative gestures, Donneson constructs a rigorous inquiry into how the self is archived, revised, and reimagined, situating the work as an exploration of interiority shaped by time.