Blake Goold - Golden Age Archive

Compiled in secrecy between 2074 and 2077, this photographic archive by Sarah Scholl and Christopher Levi is an act of defiance to the fascist government in the United Kingdom. By assembling negatives and photographic prints, the pair aim to reconstruct an image of Britain in the 2020s, the last decade before the consolidation of fascist rule. By the time the pair had begun this project, government censorship had destroyed all records of the past in hopes to erase evidence of democratic life. With Artificial intelligence’s corruption of digital imagery and its relationship to truth, Scholl and Levi resort to remaining analogue imagery. Photographs that survived in attics, abandoned storage units and private collections hidden for decades. The archive reflects a period of greater freedom but also heightened uncertainty. A time when information was increasingly unreliable and mistrust of authority was growing. The bombardment of misinformation that led to the fascist uprising left the public in a climate of unpredictability. This archive brings together perspectives from that moment, voices of those unaware of what the future held.

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