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
Vernissage : Friday, Nov 18 at 7:15 PM at articule (6282 St-Hubert, H2S 2M2).
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.
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.
The exhibition is presented in two iterations at articule (November 2025) and the Alliance Française (January 2026) within the framework of the international Symposium Networks of the Black Atlantic, a project by Nigra Iuventa, organized in partnership with the Consulate géneral of France in Québec and the Goethe-Institut Montreal, to be held in Montreal from November 18 to 22, 2025.
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Articule
262, rue Fairmount Ouest
Montreal H2V 2G3
Kanada
262, rue Fairmount Ouest
Montreal H2V 2G3
Kanada
