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Netty Gibson and Louise Josephs assume the role of archivists in this exhibition exploring discarded historical moments that have polarised society.

The collaboration between Netty Gibson and Louise Josephs has arisen from a combination of shared interests and approaches in our individual practises. These commonalities are constant even though our subject matter is varied, resulting in a similarity of focus and research sources. The artists are “archivists” of found imagery and documentation, and utilise these discarded historical moments to stimulate multi-layered narrative interpretations and to acknowledge moments of time, both good and bad and the people/society associated with them. The act of recapturing these moments restores significance to the existence of people and times that have long been forgotten.

The archival material that will form the basis of the project has been sourced from online sellers and represents the commoditisation of the historical archive that encapsulates societal memory. The archival imagery and documents selected for the current proposal reveal aspects of history with the capacity to taint and polarise both society and individuals, and which many would wish to erase from our cultural and personal memories. The material is sourced from a collection of 1940’s documents and imagery from Nazi Germany and the Victorian Police department (Australia).

The era in which these archival media originated was a tumultuous time plagued by war and crime. However, the passing of time has allowed an element of disassociation to exist that enables us to review or reinterpret these archives, often without the veil of polarised judgement. The aim is to reconstruct or interpret the emotionally charged nature of these images and subject matter in a more neutral setting, enhancing their propensity for ambivalence and challenging the viewer to reinterpret these moments and/or their own perceptions.

Netty Gibson and Louise Josephs wish to explore the potential of archival media to encourage self-reflection by using ambivalent narratives to highlight the greyness between knowing and perception. The project will include a range of recontextualised archival media to create a blended interplay between awareness and acknowledgement.



Official Opening: Thursday 5 July 2012 @ 5:30pm

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