Reading Silences is a 5-person group show that elucidates and responds to the ways in which Western photo-archives subjugate, erase, and control communities to dictate prevailing histories. Each artist questions photographic records to undermine Western archival practices by problematize privilege, racial bias, cultural monolism, colonial framing, and linear temporality inherent in Euro-centric archive photography. Through both outwards and self-referential criticism of archival agency, the artists attempt to respond to different archival silences through the process of mining personal & cultural histories.

Curator: Matthew Kyba

Artists

• -  Shahrzad Changalvaee