28/08 - 01/09/2023
Fissile Material is the cumulation of a long-term research project undertaken by Gervaise Savvias. The search for an impossible object is a reminder that the past is double absence: gone, or perhaps never there in the first place. Yet, the present/future is consistently interrupted by the past. The interpersonal is interwoven in relation to the archive – both as an abstraction and as subject matter. An assorted accumulation of fragmented material coalesces in order for an archive of locality and Self to emerge; with a fullness of a voice created out of an experimentation with oral histories, community, and curiosity. It is precisely through a collective approach that counter-narratives emerge; the (incomplete) project of the archive endures.