In I Was a Forgotten Moment, Salmah Almansoori explores the relationship between abandoned objects, the body, and visual narrative. The series brings attention to overlooked remnants of everyday life, transforming forgotten materials into carriers of memory, history, and presence.

The artist’s process begins through movement, walking, observing, documenting, and collecting fragments encountered within landscapes that often appear muted, abandoned, or suspended in time. Within these environments, moments of color emerge unexpectedly: a blanket, a toy, a discarded object. These traces interrupt the monotony of their surroundings and reveal evidence of lives once lived.

As objects lose their original function, they gradually merge into the background of everyday life, becoming increasingly invisible. Through painting, the series reactivates these forgotten fragments, inviting renewed attention to their histories and significance. Color becomes a tool of rediscovery, drawn not only from the objects themselves but also from the environments they inhabit and the memories they evoke.

Each painting preserves fleeting encounters and overlooked narratives, creating spaces where absence becomes presence and where the forgotten is brought back into view.