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# Project Description Where Will They Keep Our Memories? Iman Sidonie-Samuels Summary Final work Iman Sidonie Samuels is an award-winning visual artist, living and working in London. Her practice centres itself around acts of collecting, navigating personal, familial and colonial histories, through a black British lens. Considering the act of collecting from a personal, cultural, familial point of view in opposition/contrast to museological practices of collection, her current body of work aims to reimagine modes of building, viewing and interacting with object histories and material through multiple channels. Recent shows/projects/awards include MADD BDX: Researching the Shifting Identity of Caribbean Materials in the Archive, The Evening Standard Art Prize (Selected Winner), CTRL+C CTRL+V, Koppel Project (2023), Momentary Synergy, Colart x CSM Residency Show (2023). Iman Sidonie Samuels is an award-winning visual artist, living and working in London. Her p... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation year 2025 Focusing on conservation methods, modes of display, the roles of data and text in categorising history, accessibility to memory, this project considers how this might be changed or disrupted. Final work Where Will They Keep Our Memories? Drawing on the design styles of 18th Century display cabinets, this piece examines the act of collecting and preservation from both an institutional viewpoint and personal, familial viewpoint. Amplifying how information is transmitted through families, through what channels, with a particular focus on storytelling and the memories attached to objects, these tactile and ephemeral representations of memory are contrasted with the visual structures/aesthetics of archival settings, offering an alternate viewpoint to the sterile conditions of the institutional archive and the categorisation of histories. Handle With Care Video Documentation Research and process View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project Focusing on conservation methods, modes of display, the roles of data and text in categorising history, accessibility to memory, this project considers how this might be changed or disrupted. A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Archives & Collections Data Materiality Places & Spaces
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