Inventory | Aida Wilde: Performing The Archive
By Aida Wilde & “The Others”...
INVENTORY is a culmination and the homecoming of fourteen years of fine edition serigraphs recently withdrawn from an East London Gallery by the renowned master printmaker and visual artist Aida Wilde.
The two-day residency is part of a phased ongoing endeavour to develop Wilde’s catalogue raisonné. An act that not only safeguards, but places value on her labour, artistic practice and legacy. Wilde, leverages the collective efforts of archivists, scholars and printmakers, who will assist in documenting, repackaging and systematically cataloguing the artworks. Wilde approaches this body of work and archive through collaborative performance-based methodologies, activating these dormant, inactive records, and utilizing them as a source of inspiration, and creative development.
The collection of fine editioned serigraphs will be on view for the first time altogether over two days, within the make-shift temporary “Repository” at Felstead Art | Trampery space, where the crew will be literally taking stock, giving the returned artworks and the artist time to meditate, breathe, re-charge and to re-birth the next epoch for these works.
Inventory
Performing The Archive
8th August 2025, 6pm - 9pm (All welcome)
9th August 2025, 12pm - 6pm (All welcome)
13 Rookwood Way, London, E3 2XT
Aida Wilde & “The Others”
Aida Wilde
Aida Wilde is an Iranian born, London based contemporary serigraph artist, educator, and social commentator. With over 30 years practice in printing, Aida is the founder of Print is Power and Sisters In Print projects and her screen-printed installations and social commentary posters have graced city streets around the world, serving as responsive commentary on displacement, education, and equality.
Her fine art studio-based serigraphs are well collected and exhibited internationally in museums and institutions, with the acquisition of her artworks for the permanent collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
aidawilde.com
@aida_wilde
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski (she/Ego) is an artist/archivist whose research explores the synergy between (self)archiving as a curatorial method and artistic practice. Her artistic, archival and curatorial practice is informed and grounded in Black feminisms and DIY Queer culture/s.
Ahaiwe Sowinski is the author of Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life (Thames & Hudson, 2024) and co-editor Mirror Reflecting Darkly The Rita Keegan Archive (Goldsmiths Press, 2021). Her writing and photography has been included in the Feminist Review, British Art Studies journals, Tate Etc., Hyperallergic and MN Artists online platforms.
@Casandracarlington
Jordan Taylor
Jordan Taylor is an anti-disciplinary artist working across print and textiles, from hand embroidery to politically engaged printed matter.
They are the co-founder of PageMasters, a sustainable Risograph studio in Lewisham.
Taylor curates the PageMasters Zine Fair, leads workshops with institutions like the Royal Academy of Arts and South London Gallery, and in 2024 curated the PageMasters Print Residency with MayDay Rooms to support radical print practices.
IG: @jordan.taylor._._
@pagemasters.com