Materializing Memory

Project Brief
This catalogue book is created for the imagined group exhibition titled "Materializing Memory", featuring world-renowned artists such as Doris Salcedo, Ibrahim Mahama, Theaster Gates, Francis Alÿs, Mona Hatoum, He Xiang Yu, Michael Armitage, and Darren Almond.In addition to the exhibition, a series of promotional posters have been designed to herald the launch of the book.

Exhibition Concept:
History is written by the victors. What a culture chooses to memorialize is bound up with the prevailing hegemony: contemporary historians have begun to privilege memory in the form of personal testimonies and oral histories as a corrective to the narrative of power. Artists also have an important role in voicing silenced or contested memories, while art’s ability to collapse historical time allows us a fresh perspective on the sweep of history.

Working in a range of mediums, including video, sculpture, installation, photograph and painting, these artists are unified by their distinctive practices that poetically balance politics and aesthetics, producing works that have historical as well as personal resonance.