The Archive Room w/ Shannon Conacher: 18th July, 2025.

Shannon Conacher is a South African, Tāmaki based artist. Working amongst a variety of mediums with a central focus on moving image and video.

Her current exhibition, The Archive Room, showing at RM navigates RM's own archive and archive room. Bringing into focus a space that might be typically overlooked. An archive of ephemera that dates back to the artist-run space’s opening in 1997, with many of the artworks within the archive being largely unknown of its maker.

Within the archive room Conacher approaches the archive as a living, breathing site. Re-positioning the archive into an active site of touch and encounter. Through a process of material dialogue between Conacher and the archived art works. working with a light touch to preserve the works agency, but enough to bring them forth into a space of active dialogue.

Maya had chat with Shannon Conacher about her practice and current show The Archive Room.