In The Wake of Our Archives: On Transmission and Inherited Memories
Exhibition|Networks of the Black Atlantic
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Articule, Montreal
- Price Free and open to the public.
- Part of series: Networks of the Black Atlantic: Heritage, Knowledge and Solidarity
In The Wake Of Our Archives: On Transmission and Inherited Memories is an exhibition that delves into the intimacy and affective nature of family archives and oral accounts. It poses the question, “How do we relate to and embody inherited memories?”
Taking cues from Stuart Hall’s reflections on the "living Archive", the term archive here is approached not only as evidence or recount of the past, but also as a testimony to the voids in time and history. It is approached as a holistic and dynamic body that offers, in its incompleteness, the possibility to inhabit and continuously reassess the past, in search of that which was omitted.
In this vein, the exhibition brings together Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Mallory Lowe Mpoka, two artists whose practices are deeply rooted within intergenerational transmission and archival custodianship.
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262, rue Fairmount Ouest
Montreal H2V 2G3
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