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azagra val
bogan megan
calver sue
coulson elena
dady susie david gail
flockhart carol
harvey •elizabeth lancaster-thomas fereshte moosavi patricia parker amy shelton ruth shorrock nic thompson• |
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my MA Project I endeavored to re-identify fading memories through
dialogues with those who sought refuge in Plymouth’s World War
II air raid shelters. These spaces reminded me of my own experiences
of shelter life during the Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988, so
the project focused on the resurfacing of these wartime memories and
reconsideration of the shelter as a space whose meaning has changed
over time. This body of work was shown in two sites: the first, Under
The Ground, comprised transparent photographic portraits installed
where the old bench brackets had been severed from the walls in an
air raid shelter sited adjacent to a building that was once a public
school. This space resonated with its own collective memories; in
the second, Above The Ground, I made casts of the severed brackets
that served as indexical traces, and these were shown as a collection
in museum cases within a gallery context. |
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