Shannon Conacher
The Archive Room
16 July – 23 August 2025
At RM, the archive room is most often overlooked during an exhibition opening — contents boxed away and unseen. Within this archive is a collection of ephemera from exhibitions at the long-running artist-run space dating back to its opening in 1997.
In developing this work, I looked back to the gallery that initially inspired RM to set up this collection. It is modelled on Seoul’s Insa Art Space, where archived materials are described as “waiting to come alive again with the touch and breath of the users, so that they can again be a part of their works and memories”.¹
The Archive Room is a multi-channel video installation that reawakens artworks lost to the 22-year old archive, repositioning the collection as a living, breathing site.
¹Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea, 2007. RM Gallery, accessed 28 September 2024.
Images by Shannon Conacher