In Scripted Permanence, Georgia Hayward delves into the history of The Condensery’s bomb shelter, once used as an archival repository during World War II. Through mechanistic drawing and layered archival references, the installation interrogates how archives—once tools of colonial governance—continue to shape authority, secrecy, and the law.
Rather than viewing archives as passive storage for historical knowledge, Hayward reframes them as active sites of knowledge production. The work raises questions about authorship, the politics of information, and the value we assign to preserved records.
IMAGE: Georgia Hayward, Scripted Permanence (detail), 2024
