Charlie-Anne Côté

So, Why Are You Interested?

So, Why Are You Interested? speaks to the process of requesting access to local church and city archives. Although they are important vehicles of collective memory, archives are often overlooked.

print & linocut

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This work aims to bring the idea of an archive to the forefront by prompting reflections around their care, content and access. Playing with opacity, scales, flaws, and the visual language of official documents, the piece translates the nature of the material collected and the mechanisms at stake in the act of managing archives.

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Charlie-Anne Côté is a design researcher and part-time lithographer based in Montreal, Canada. Through her work, both as a curatorial assistant in a museum and in the print-making studio, she strives to find meanings in the artefacts and documents collected, to better understand our relationship with place and space.