Photos by Collin Riggins.
(Thank you, Collin!)
“Raya Ward debuts a captivating visual language that incisively guides viewers through a sophisticated meditation on the nature of our personal archives — how they are built, how they persist, how well they represent us, and to whom they are legible…”
We are constantly constructing archives. Our inscriptions, transactions, and interactions are all diaries. There are records of you across the world: in data centers, in trash dumps, in the memories of the lives you have loved. The records of you are infinite, and almost completely out of your control. Physical, digital, fragile. Accurate, yet abstracted. Even summed together, all are still never quite a complete representation.
sarry about saying you don’t is a diary of multiple mediums. Raya welcomes us in to an intimate space constructed of her own archives — ones made of her, ones she has collected, and others she has produced. Through mixed media collage and installation, Raya weaves together a range of record types and sources in a simultaneous rejection of ‘privacy’ and calculated presentation of truth.
Poster design by raya marie hazell