Memory Catcher invites female and non-binary artists to respond to Safehouse 1, an abandoned building in East London. The artists present works that move beyond simple nostalgia, using personal experience and emotional residue as primary materials for investigation. The exhibition embraces memory’s inherent unreliability – our tendency to beautify, justify, or reinvent the past. Through thread, repetitive labour, and layered imagery, it asks: how can memory reclaim both space and time?

Personal experience and emotional residue serve as the primary materials of investigation. The exhibition embraces memory’s inherent unreliability, our tendency to beautify, justify or reinvent the past. The irreparable traces of memory weave together into a net: each thread independent yet interconnected, resonating quietly with one another.

Through thread, repetitive labour, layered imagery, sutured narrative and intersecting temporality, individual memory synapses flicker across the grid like scattered stars, constantly reorganising and pulling at one another. How can memory reclaim both space and time?