Archives & Crimes by Iman Mersal sound We glimpse the artist’s now-iconic

We glimpse the artist’s now-iconic mixed media works

a tree at night against the stars

” while peering through the train window at all the monumental trackside tags

so it is impossible to know for sure her origins

transient and hybrid identities

Archives & Crimes by Iman Mersal sound We glimpse the artist’s now-iconicArchives & Crimes by Iman Mersal (translated by Robin Moger). A dead body may be full of holes, an archive may have missing documents. What happened here? To comprehend a story, we take partial evidence and try to fill in the gaps. We research to unlock the mystery, urgently, forensically. We gather what we can, and solve it, or invent an explanation and close the case, or we abandon it, leaving the story to stare back at us across time. Part crime