GEORGINA-ELIZABETH

Visual Artist / Living Archive Builder / Based in Lewisham

Creating a parallel space for Black representation beyond institutional gaze

 

Living Archive: The Home As Galley

A site-specific exhibition project by Georgina-Elizabeth
Coming October 2025 | Lewisham

Project Statement:
Living Archive is a research-led exhibition set within the artist’s own home, which becomes a gallery, a vessel, and an active installation. It interrogates what authentic Black representation might look like outside of institutional settings historically designed to exclude it.

 

Rather than attempting to revise misrepresentation within white frameworks, this project creates a parallel space that documents Blackness as it lives—unrevised, unfiltered, and unperformed. The domestic site functions not only as context but as content, offering an alternative to the mythologies imposed by Western culture and visual history.

 

 

 

 

The work incorporates biblical and mythological dissection, confronting the use of symbolic storytelling to control, romanticise, or subjugate Black identity, especially that of Black women. This is not resistance, but refusal: an archive of being, not becoming.

Features:

  • Paintings, archival interventions, and curated domestic installations

  • Unscripted performance/existence as a disruptor within home gallery space

  • Community engagement and intimate viewer access

Curators, writers, or community contributors interested in the project are encouraged to get in touch.

Quick Info:

  • Based in Lewisham, South London

  • MA Fine Art Candidate (2025)

  • Areas of interest: Black visuality, mythology, domestic space, archival practices

  • Available for curatorial collaboration and community-engaged programming