The Archive of Silence was created for the group show The Doorway Effect and exhibited at The Handbag Factory Gallery, London in 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. 210 x 210 x 185 cm. 2025.
An open stage. A table. Two chairs. An eight-panel folding screen, one side mirrored, the other printed with the patterns of The Celestial Weave: Shamsa Medallion, Lotus Arch, Lattice Mina-Khani. Book and stage bound into a single visual script.
The audience circulates. They can sit. They can read the play. In the mirror, they find themselves.
A short play unfolds. Set in a war museum preparing a new exhibition sponsored by an arms manufacturer. The thresholds between remembering and denial. Between witness and accomplice.
The fourth wall dissolves. The archive does not speak. The silence does.