Unfolding Narratives UAL 2025
Unfolding Narratives is the Postgraduate Research work-in-progress exhibition at London College of Communication. I took part in the 2025 exhibition with work-in-progress from my body of work Tales from the Silk Factory, including a video installation and two readings from my developing creative non-fiction work.
Tales from the Silk Factory - Video Installation
Installation outline and content warning
Taking photos against the official narrative could have landed you in prison. 'Tales from the Silk Factory' explores how, between family album and propaganda archives, oral histories can help restore and preserve memory. The artist turns storyteller of her generation, children growing up under dictatorship in Bucharest’s neighbourhood Grivita.
A gentle warning:
Some viewers, especially if they have also spent their childhood under similar regimes, might find some of the stories and archive footage upsetting. These include oral history accounts of deprivation of basic needs, political persecution, lack of freedom of expression and archival footage of the dictator Ceausescu.
Video Installation Still (click to watch video)
Tales from the Silk Factory - Readings
I hosted three sessions where I read an excerpt from my work-in-progress memoir. Read it here.
Participants were invited to either draw or write key words as I read, or simply share their experience of visualising the scenes depicted as they listened, in an attempt to explore the power of spoken word in forming visual narratives.
Find out more about the 2025 Unfolding Narratives initiative at LCC-UAL
https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/unfolding-narratives
