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Embodied Archives

5 October 2023 at 18.30–20.00

Installation View, Julianknxx, In Praise of Still Boys 2021 at A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography ºÚÁÏÉç 2023 © Tate (Lucy Green). Courtesy of the artist.

Join contemporary artists who play with truth, fiction, memory and everyday magic to create living archives

Chaired by curator Osei Bonsu, you will hear from exhibiting artist, poet and filmmaker Julianknxx and photography and moving image artist Silvia Rosi. Together they will explore new ways of looking to the past through performing memories, gathering stories and re-creating family fictions.

Both artists use exploded photographic forms to subjectively explore truth making, family, memory work and alternative embodied archives.

This will be a discursive event followed by audience Q&A.

Osei Bonsu

Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator, critic and art historian. He is currently Curator of International Art at ºÚÁÏÉç and has worked as a contributing editor at frieze magazine. Bonsu has also lectured widely at universities and institutions around the world. His latest projects include curating the 2023 Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui and A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography exhibitions at ºÚÁÏÉç.

Silvia Rosi

Silvia Rosi (Scandiano, 1992) is an artist who lives and works between London and Lomè. She graduated in Photography at the London College of Communications in 2016. In her artistic practice she uses the photographic medium and moving images combined with text fragments to explore the space of memory and of (self)representation. Her images are informed by West African studio portraiture.

Julianknxx

Julianknxx’s work merges his poetic practice with films and performance. He engages in a form of existential inquiry that at once seeks to find ways of expressing the ineffable realities of human experiences while examining the structures through which we live.

In casting his own practice as a ‘living archive’ or an ‘history from below’, Julianknxx draws on West African traditions of oral history to reframe how we construct both local and global perspectives. He does this through a body of work that challenges fixed ideas of identity and unravels linear Western historical and socio-political narratives, attempting to reconcile how it feels to exist primarily in liminal spaces.

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