Afterlives / Visual essays
Follow what an image carries into another life.
Featured investigation / Images borrowed
The same woman.
A different invitation.
A cigarette-paper advertisement finds another audience seventy years later. Start with the figure; stay for the library between them.
Enter the investigation →03 / Patterns carried
How much history can a familiar name leave out?
Sophia George’s game, 2014
Documented by the V&A
New from the Afterlives lab
Six new essays follow materials, making, trade and the things an image carries.
China · Iznik
A dish translates porcelain. →Where does imitation end and invention begin?
Ghana · Nsukka, Nigeria
Cloth without a loom. →Can a sculpture remember weaving without being woven?
Austin · New York · Dominican diaspora
A workshop travels. →What if the thing passed on is a way of working together?
Lisbon · Nuremberg · Meissen attribution
An animal made of reports. →How can an image become authoritative without an eyewitness?
China · Japan
A blue that crossed borders. →What if the traveller is a material, rather than a picture?
Indian subcontinent · Europe · Indian Ocean networks
A pattern negotiates a market. →Who is adapting to whom when a textile is made for export?
A fifth way in / Gesture
A vessel, a wave, and a curve that changes with its surface. Follow an original visual reading without a claim of historical influence.
Follow the marks →From reading to research
Millet, a photograph and Van Gogh. Open the Afterlives lab to follow the sources behind a documented adaptation.
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