A Record of Memory, Presence, and Absence
Palimpsest
Anastasia Tribambuka Solo Show
Curated by Michael Wormack
Felstead Art
London, 2025
Palimpsest is a collection of mixedmedia collages by Anastasia Tribambuka, that act as a record of memory, presence, and absence. Interweaving fragments of personal and collective stories, the exhibition explores the shifting patterns between us and the fragile traces that remain.
Anastasia’s work inhabits overlapping thresholds, where lives and histories bleed into one another, forming a perceptual overlay that she names her palimpsest: a map of the subconscious inscribed in fragments.
Palimpsest
/pa· limp· sest/
- A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing
- Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
The materials that ground Anastasia’s works are themselves marked by complex histories. Samizdat papers typed on by her grandmother in Soviet Leningrad during the 1980s reappear here, responding to children’s letters written to socialist magazines. Once serving as instruments of propaganda, these are now reclaimed as fragile relics of resistance and play. They are brought into dialogue with fragments gathered during Anastasia’s later travels; train tickets from Indian, Tamil newspapers, handprinted monotype textures, and sketchbook musings. All of which slip into Anastasia’s palimpsest of broken houses and phantom histories.
Inner Emigration
Size: 80x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Misplaced Enthusiasm
Size: 80x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Red Flag №3
Size: 80x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Hazard Perception (Red Flag №2)
Size: 80x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
"We don’t think in straight lines. There’s layers of memory, impressions, dreams and echoes of some other times and places. There’s a place that reminds of another place, or a smell that transports you to another time. When this person’s voice has the same edge as someone long gone. When a stranger’s eyes briefly hold the soul of a childhood friend. A sunset in London that brings New Delhi alive, or a crack in the wall in Hastings that suddenly feels like a ruin near Vyborg…"
- Anastasia Tribambuka
We Are Not in the Future Yet
Size: 60x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
House of Several Pasts
Size: 60x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
For Anastasia, collage is a form of listening. With a sense of anarchic resistance, historic and hierarchic importances are broken down. Materials are destroyed and reformed, speaking in their own voice but also coming together in a process of interference and contradiction. This challenges memory versus erasure, revealing memory’s unpredictable hauntings. Palimpsest does not reconstruct history but evokes its afterimages.
Something Fell Off the Map
Size: 60x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
The Shape of Air Between Walls
Size: 60x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
"Nothing is sacred, and everything is. Just fragments, echoes, accidents.
Torn paper, gestures, ghosts of drawings past..."
- Anastasia Tribambuka
Between the lines
Size: 60x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Afternoon, Mislabelled
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Meanwhile, Elsewhere, Tomorrow
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Candour
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
This Is Not My Address
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Untitled (Like Most of Us)
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
With Minor Corrections
Size: 30x30 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Aspiration
Size: 35x35 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Emotional Support
Size: 30x30 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Red Flag №1
Size: 80x60 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
Interior Weather
Size: 70x50 cm
Medium: Mixed Media on board
Year: 2025
003830
Size: 15x21 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
Draft Excluder
Size: 15x21 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
Nothing Happens Twice
Size: 15x21 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
Some of This May Be Structural
Size: 15x21 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
Blueprint for a Forgotten Room
Size: 15x21 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
Nothing Happens Twice, Except This
Size: 21x15 cm
Medium: Mixed Media collage on board
Year: 2025
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