Store

What does it mean to inherit histories that resist closure?

How do fragments of memory, intimate, unstable, and contingent, return in ways that demand ethical reworking, reconfiguration, and interpretive negotiation? THK Gallery’s presentation at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair situates the practices of Tshepiso Moropa, Sahlah Davids, Natnael Ashebir, Driaan Claassen, and Duncan Wylie within these persistent interrogations of archival authority, memory, and temporality.

Reading through the lens of archival theory and performative memory, the works of these artists interrogate the archive not as a static repository but as a dynamic, mutable site where history, memory, and material converge. This framework aligns with Derrida’s notion of “Archive Fever,” where archives are sites of authority and power, shaping what is preserved, forgotten, or reimagined.