Anastasia Tribambuka: Palimpsest
A Record of Memory, Presence, and Absence
11th October 2025 - 6th December 2025
Private View: 10th October 2025 (RSVP HERE)
13 Rookwood Way, London, E3 2XT

Palimpsest - /ˈpalɪm(p)sɛst/
noun

• 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.

This show is about memory, presence and absence, trace we leave, and the way it unintentionally becomes part of some other pattern, of someone else’s story. Samizdat papers that my grandmother was typing on her old typewriter in Soviet Union in the 80s, kids’ letters to a a socialist magazine in Leningrad, tickets to Indian trains and bits of Tamil newspapers from my soul searching travels in my 20s, mixed with my drawings and notes to self…. Memory versus erasure. Movement versus trace. The self as sediment, as archive, as inherited glitch. Intuitive, messy, accidental archaeology.