In response to Modern Painters, New Decorators 2022 Archive Fever exhibitions,this multi-screen installation features interviews with six artists and contributors about the Leicestershire Museums Collection. Their conversations cover an array of topics, from nostalgia, conspiracy theories, preservation, and the personal responses they had to the objects within the archives.
The installation comprised multiple screens stacked on top of each other, some displaying talking heads interviews and footage from the project, and others honing in on a selection of handpicked items from the collection. A fox wrapped in plastic, a town crier's hat, herbarium specimens. The archaic televisions displayed grainy images of objects, vessels for stories and shared histories emptied of their original colours. Ghostlike they appeared, and vanished, haunting the conversations that summoned their presence.