Holly Davey

The Unforgetting
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2024

And here you are in front of me. 

Boxes.

Files. 

Books. 

Rummaging through, I was invited btw, but not by you. Respectfully I keep your order of date, time, archival number. I look, read, study, think, make notes, stare out the window, listen to sounds of traffic below, the train whistles, and platform announcements. To understand your context is crucial. You hang over the railway station. For 50 years. The same age as me. I sit back. 

- What do you want to show me? I ask.

You lean in. 

An excerpt from The Unforgetting, a text written as part of a commission researching the archive at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, to celebrate fifty years of the gallery. Below are some works produced and exhibited as part of the commission. 

For more information: 

https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/holly-davey-the-unforgetting/