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Artists: Alison Alder, Alex Martinis Roe and Anon

Dates: 6 March to 10 April 2021

Alison Alder, Alex Martinis Roe and 'Anon' conceive contemporary feminist practice herstorically – an important though tricky job, with so little archival context for this work. Their feminist activism seeks to intervene in the lives of people by reaching beyond purely aesthetic concerns to seek other social spaces, and in the process creates a politics of remembrance and alliance, to coin the title of Martinis Roe’s project. They address the unstable process of historical meaning, and who tells the story, for repositories of materials and information are never static entities, or even safe. The archival interlocutors activate left wing and specifically feminist historical memory as a process – one which matters and underpins the humanist values of care and civic reckoning, helping to determine what counts as knowledge in the future: what will be meant, or perhaps will never be meant. The artists offer us examples of truth-telling, resilience and optimism. This herstorical imagination opens up new avenues of thinking and looking at a world which negatively impacts upon women.

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