The Archive of Silence
2025
210 x 210 x 185 cm. 2025. Engraved plywood, MDF, timber, metal, UV print on acrylic sheet, magnet, one-way mirror sheet, two chairs, a table, a photo, an archival box.
The Archive of Silence is an installation set up as an open stage, together with a short play. A table and two empty chairs stand before an eight-panel folding screen—one side mirrored, the other printed with motifs drawn from her artist’s book The Celestial Weave. Across fifteen linocuts bound in two volumes, three ornamental patterns—arabesque lattices, shamsa medallions, and floral geometries—are repeatedly overprinted with bomb clouds, gradually eroding their symmetry. These same patterns reappear across the screen, binding book and stage into a single visual script. Set in a national war museum preparing a controversial new exhibit sponsored by an arms manufacturer, the work examines the thresholds between remembering and denial. A father and daughter speak across these divides; the audience, caught in the doorway, becomes both witness and accomplice to forgetting.