Featuring works of artists Ashanti Harris, Asuf Ishaq, Mele Broomes, Michael Mersinis, Nadia Zhaya & Arthur Start; curated by Shalmali Shetty.

Dreams are borne in the inbetweenness of reality and irreality; on the periphery of sleep and wakefulness; along the spectral seam between remembering and forgetting; on the margins that define landscapes and territories, integrating the personal with the political. Dreaming becomes a space in time, contained within the body and its ambit of consciousness. Dreaming is a consequence of pasts that cannot return but that which still haunt; affected by hopes that are yet to arrive; wherein the body grapples in the ephemeral passage of the present, and traverses undefined, surreal realms. Dreaming becomes a resounding memory of warped, overlapping timelines; and the body a shadow, manifesting these memories.

Showcasing a series of films, photographs, objects, an installation, and marked by two performances, the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate and dream, both individually and collectively.

The works for ‘You are a Memory’ are simultaneously speaking to the nature of disseminating and intercepting of visual and auditory information. The geography and the politics along transmission and seismic lines are becoming more relevant in the light of recent evets that deal with population migration, covert operations and political tensions. There are 2 sets of works presented here. The first series of works considers the auditory landscape of war following the invasion to Ukraine by forces of the Russian Federation on the 24th of February 2022. ‘Intercept’ is a response to this event. The series of works propose an acoustic account of the invasion in Ukraine. Utilising a military transceiver, signals were intercepted from high ground in Scotland, Italy, Greece, Switzerland and Serbia following the initial invasion. All relevant military and civilian frequencies were monitored for activity in the Shortwave Spectrum and are presented here as an acoustic landscape, part of an installation that considers military equipment in the gallery space as both objects and tools of production. The sound piece records the communications that are relevant to the invasion and the struggle of Ukraine to resist.
The series of images is from a body of work called ‘Eathquake/Event’ that is in progress. Custom pinhole cameras are installed on islands, islets and unnamed rock formations across the seismic ridge in the Mediterranean sea between what is now Greece and Turkey. A location of political tensions, migrant crossings and military operations, the cameras remain dormant, until activated by the seismic activity of the area. Each exposure is initiated, paused, continued for the duration of the earthquake. The process, like the exposure is unreliable and relies on processes that are unpredictable, but catalytic towards the formation of image. The negatives when retrieved are printed using a proprietary method on stainless sheets coated with sterling silver. Each work is unique.