To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography

Various Authors

Publisher
Matarile Ediciones
Year
2025
Specifications
Softcover
36 pages
6.76 x 9.75 in
First edition
Distributed by Dashwood Books
Curated by Sara Ickow, Keisha Scarville, and Elisabeth Sherman
Artists: Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, Sasha Wortzel

An exhibition volume gathering seven artists who treat the archive not as a fixed repository but as a living, contested space. The artists locate archives in the elsewhere, the familial, the obscure, the speculative, and the sonic, challenging linear structures and broadening what an archive can hold. Rather than seeking resolution within existing collections, each artist acts as a kind of conjurer, summoning a presence that was previously unseen but always latent, creating new conduits for storing, inhabiting, and holding time within tenuous boundaries.

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