© Saachi Mehta, 2025.
THE BIAS OF MEMORY
Editorial Design, 2024
THE BIAS OF MEMORY is a visual response to Friedrich Martens' "Voyage into Spitzberg and Greenland," a 17th-century travelogue documenting an Arctic expedition. I critically examine the travelogue through Hartman's theory of critical fabulation, using translucent vellum to visually deconstruct colonial narratives. The project employs feminist methodologies to reimagine silenced perspectives within historical documentation.
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