Project Overview

Materializing Memory explores how personal and collective histories are remembered, contested, and reimagined through contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition brings together works across video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Each piece engages with the politics of memory through poetic form and material sensitivity.

Recognition:

Communication Arts, Typography Annual 2024;
Communication Arts, Design Annual 2024;
Graphis, Silver;

Featuring Artists: Doris Salcedo, Ibrahim Mahama, Theaster Gates, Francis Alÿs, Mona Hatoum, He Xiang Yu, Michael Armitage, and Darren Almond.

Design Approach

The visual system was developed to express the exhibition’s central tension: memory as both fragile and constructed. Drawing from curatorial practices that use silhouetted artwork to orient viewers, the design adopts cropped contours and incomplete forms as core visual elements. These gestures reflect the fragmentary, subjective, and interpretive qualities of memory.

The system spans the catalog, cover, and promotional materials. It pairs typographic clarity with conceptual restraint, positioning memory not only as a theme but as a formal device that guides visual rhythm, spatial pacing, and viewer engagement.