The project critically engages the archive, photography and printed matter through questioning its relationship with memory, erasure and censorship in the context of historical narrative building.

The project investigates and exploits the fragility of the archive and its capacity as a truthful communication tool to build grand historical narratives. In reference to Kim Beil’s ‘Anonymous Objects’ the archival photograph becomes destabilised when taken out of context and out of time. What was once common knowledge becomes unknown in the current day as culture and material realities change, memories fade.