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title: "An archive of encounters"
date: 2022-12-02
last_modified: 2025-02-25T17:39:15+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-09T10:23:32Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/an-archive-of-encounters-gauri-gill-2022-context-en/"
description: "In Gauri Gill's “Notes from the Desert” the archival structure with its systems of identification, classification and order is sought in vain. Nevertheless, she describes the series of work as an open archive. So, what makes an archive and thus Gauri Gill's take on it so special?"
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Header_Schirn_Presse_Gauri_Gill_Jannat__Barmer_Notes_from_the_Desert_1999-ongoing__c__Gauri_Gill.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# An archive of encounters