A Necessary Fiction Images and Texts

A short documentary film of "A Necessary Fiction" can be viewed on YouTube HERE

Title: Memory Reloaded
Medium: screen-print onto paper clay

Text: How we remember and what we are made to forget is the basis of Memory reloaded

and the manner in which memory is fragmented, splintered and fractious. I wanted to question the link between the creation of objects and the creation of memory and the mechanisms by which individuals and communities commemorate, recollect.

 Title: Boxed in Boxed out 
Medium: Screen-print on paper-clay, photographic image on acetate, museum display case

Text: Boxed in Boxed out uses the idea of the colonial museum display as a means by which the meaning of an object or text can be abused, changed, controlled and hidden. 

The redacted texts displayed testify to the erasure of black history and the obfuscation of meaning, with the use of the museum display case an example of a museum as a place of memory that stores 

memories and organises meaning.

Title: Told from below 

(exhibition installation view)

Medium: Glazed stoneware clay, photographic print onto fabric

Text: Told from below is a response to the architecture of the space and the dominant white room columns as a representation of a dominant narrative over subjugated sections of society. The smaller, black cylinders form part of the “history told from below”, a phrase by Antoni Gramsci to identify groups excluded from the establishment and the stories that are denied and not part of the mainstream narrative