The Memory of Architecture,
co-curated with David Lisbon, FILET, 2022
The Memory of Architecture group show is a conversation around the politics of space; space as not a given but incurred and fought in a long history of stolen homes. The works call for an expanision of life not private property. Where home is not defined by a specific place or location but the experiences that we build in order to live. Or the experiences we were part of that made us feel at home. Or the memories we carve into our new habitats. In other words, the homes we carry with us. Particular items & objects that turn a room into a bedroom, sounds of street parties, scents of home cooking, a streak of sun touching the floor, an alcove turned into a shrine.
The show looked at ways people have brought uniqueness to spaces despite the pressure of homoeginsation of home, street and neighborhood. With a public programme that disrupted the rules exisiting in public space meant to seperate and disenfranchise us to the environment, including a parkour workshop with Alisa Oleva, free hot Grenadian stew by Jerome. and a destructive drumming performance using discarded cabinets by Keef Winter.
Instal photography by Glenn Harper