The Return of The Repressed

Working in collaboration with Emily Anderson to produce a catalogue and visual concept for her imagined exhibition, The Return of The Repressed, the outcomes focus on themes of childhood and fragmented memory. Using abstract re-creations of the exhibited work, broken up across the catalogues constituent double-paged spreads, the editorial design hints at their fleeting role as merely ‘transitional objects’. This idea of recreating the exhibition’s art objects comes from the Chicago Imagists, who used the technique to create their own exhibition catalogues in the format of comic books. It is their playful approach that informed the assertive vibrancy of colours and images to highlight the childhood themes. Exhibition posters were created alongside the publication, using the fragmented aesthetic to create intrigue at the objects exhibited.