Anne is an artist, history practitioner and writer whose research-led practice investigates how systems of organisation construct historical knowledge and shape cultural memory. Working across archives, collections, exhibitions and public space, I examine how acts of classification, display and reconstruction produce cultural authority.
Adopting the role of curator, she works across analogue and digital methods, using deconstruction, repair and collage to reassemble fragments of original work with found objects, images and archival materials to create counter-archives that expose how historical meaning is produced through processes of selection, arrangement and omission.
Her doctoral research developed a historiographic methodology that combined archival enquiry with studio practice to investigate how systems of classification produce cultural authority. Focusing on eighteenth-century botanical science, the research examined how Linnaean taxonomy naturalised contemporary ideas of gender, class and social order through the language of plant reproduction. This methodology now underpins projects in which historical narratives can be questioned, reconstructed and reimagined.
From Spring 2027, Anne will be working with the documenta archive, part of the Goethe-Institut, as part of FILE NOT FOUND, a transnational initiative by the Goethe-Institut and Gerador which pairs ten artists with ten global archives to explore the risks and challenges archives face as sites of cultural memory, resistant knowledge, and alternative perspectives under growing political pressure.
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