Lifetimes Lived Apart

Countless cultures and artefacts have been severed, fragmented, buried, revived and reimagined through various diasporas. Kirtis Clarke’s films, abstract structures and heavy sculptural forms are the performative results of such a process. Following an inquiry into the complexity of the designer’s own diasporic community, relational gestures defined the form of the sculptures, that become buried and fossilised in material processes representative of time lost and the condition of scattered populations. Presented as sites for unknowable rituals to be reimagined, the project asks: What does it means to excavate history in a present tense? What does it mean to materialise the personal in this historical moment?