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Spectral Embrace [Part i + ii]

Clark, Erin (2025) Spectral Embrace [Part i + ii]. Masters thesis, OCAD University.

Item Type: Thesis
Creators: Clark, Erin
Abstract:

Spectral Embrace [part ii] is a collection of art-objects that recontextualize colonial histories through a decolonial lens, using the colonial archive of the Philippines (1898-1946) as a site of study. While rooted in the artist’s lived experience as a mixed-race Filipinx raised in Bermuda, the installation blends archival and familial photographs to rupture linear time, reveal continuities of imperialism across time and space, and give back autonomy to the nameless faces within the archive. Each altar, warmly lit, is an offering to the ghosts interned within the archive. Spectral Embrace [part ii] is a counter-archive that collapses the boundaries of past and present and gives space for diasporic remembrance.

Date: 2025
Divisions: Exhibition Services > Graduate Gallery
Faculty of Art
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2026 14:16
Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026 14:16
URI: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4826

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