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Project 01, London, UK
Exploring how memories and oral storytelling travel from past to present and into the future
2026
Stories have long been transmitted through oral traditions within families and communities, shaping imagination and shared memory across generations.
As these practices decline in an increasingly digital culture, many forms of storytelling and the collective experiences they create, are gradually disappearing.
This project seeks to reactivate this tradition while acknowledging that memory is never fixed.
Each act of remembering transforms a story, allowing it to evolve with the present.
By revisiting myths, legends, and folklore, the project opens space for new interpretations that expand representation and imagine alternative mythologies for the future.
The project develops through a series of stages that explore how stories move across time.
It begins by gathering myths, legends, and folktales remembered within families, communities, and cultural traditions. These stories are collected through written transcripts, audio recordings, and visual references, forming a body of material drawn from oral memory.
From this foundation, the project invites writers and poets to create newly imagined myths that reflect contemporary visions of survival, care, resistance, and transformation within feminine and queer narratives.
Selected texts are then interpreted by visual artists, who translate the written narratives into visual works without illustrative intent, allowing the stories to take new forms.
The project culminates in a public exhibition where these texts and visual interpretations come together, tracing the movement of stories from inherited memory to contemporary creation and future transmission.

