Exhibitions in the Centre and Library
Current Exhibition (from March-July 2024)
Putting our resources to work: transforming archives through creative strategies
In October 2023, CVC fellows Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla ran a workshop at Cambridge University Library (CUL) entitled ‘Putting our resources to work: transforming archives through creative strategies’. The workshop was the culmination of their fellowship to investigate, provoke and intervene in the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collection held at CUL, with a particular focus on material relating to Zambia. Sana has previously written of their experience working in the closed stacks of the RCS collection (‘Transtemporal at the University Library’, May 2023). The fellowship sought to explore how visual material relating to Zambia in the RCS collection could and should be considered, challenged and (re)used alongside the Zambia Belonging collection, a contemporary counter-archive established by Sana and built around unclaimed material found in the attic of the Fine Arts Studio on Chachacha Road in Lusaka.
Watch the tour of the exhibition on our Instagram.
Past Exhibitions (2019-2024)
Stories of Kalingalinga
“Stories of Kalingalinga” highlights some of the rapid economic and social changes that have taken place in the neighbourhood of Kalingalinga in Zambia’s capital Lusaka. Kalingalinga is being squeezed on all sides by more affluent suburbs and the images in the exhibition capture the rich diversity in this community as changes due to modernisation begin to gather pace.