Create, Capture, Organise, Pluralise

Part of Somerset House Studios. Marking the third season of Gallery 31: Create, Capture, Organise, Pluralise explores the notion of the body as an archive; as a record of collective stories, experiences, and memories.

Featuring video, sculpture, sound and printed works from Josiane M.H. Pozi, Majed Aslam, Ilona Sagar, and Col Self in collaboration with Farvash and vvxxii (Sp0re), the show borrows its title from the ‘records continuum model’ - a conceptual model used to understand and explore recordkeeping activities.

Curated by Stella Sideli, Create, Capture, Organise, Pluralise takes influence from the theory's non-linear and holistic approach to the idea of the archive - one that understands the archive as a process, rather than a static collection of things - to reflect on the body as a similar type of site: one where collective memories and stories are preserved, passed on, reinterpreted, and adapted.

In considering this discursive, imaginative terrain where the body simultaneously holds the past and present, the works in the exhibition articulate different bodily narratives. Josiane M.H. Pozi’s newly commissioned film Marlonsworld documents the mundane and profound daily existence of living bodies in an intimate portrait piece set against the backdrop of the current global pandemic.