Our Days of Gold
Our Days of Gold (2017-ongoing) is a work that explores grief, memory, and the suspended temporality of social media as a site of mourning and speculative reanimation. The project began in 2017 as a durational, performative archive on Instagram (@ourdaysofgold_film), where one image is shared daily from a collection of photographs and video made by the artist with her siblings in the early 2000s. Through this rhythm of posting, the work invites anonymous co-authorship from an online audience and blurs the boundaries between an analogue archive and its digital staging, between photography and moving image.
In 2024, an exhibition at TG Gallery in Nottingham revisited the archive through video and installation, mapping a long-lost family home in Sorrento, Italy onto the former caretaker’s flat that now houses the gallery within Primary.
Our Days of Gold also expanded into collaboration with The Cool Company, an over-55s improvisational dance group led by Deane McQueen at Nottingham Contemporary. Together, they animated the archive through projections, movement, and spatial drawing.