{"id":174238,"date":"2025-04-29T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=174238"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:06:42","slug":"tender-secrets-the-powerful-archive-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=174238","title":{"rendered":"Tender Secrets: The Powerful  Archive Of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-abfeb7fe0c4c8af65e039a44afa08bbd wp-block-paragraph\">What do you feel when you come across an archive? Not the cold, clinical kind sealed in cardboard boxes, but the living sort: Made of notebooks stuffed with scribbled thoughts, of Polaroids faded by the sun, of shaky family videos capturing unplanned moments. These personal fragments don\u2019t just document lives,  they make your heart throb. In a world that prefers polished narratives and airbrushed legacies, some artists choose instead to leave traces: raw, messy, unfinished, and entirely human. It is not just that their life is their work, it&#8217;s the use of emotions to expose and document. Read more in <em>Tender Secrets: The Powerful  Archive Of Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3cce6c9508b8899b746c1ba9eaa0880d wp-block-paragraph\">Image on the left-hand side is from &#8216;Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography&#8217;&nbsp;by Tony Peake. Image courtesy of Allison &amp; Busby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cdfff7134c310a0243fa9020f9258130 wp-block-paragraph\">An artist will always be their work, and when we understand the work, we may well get a sense of them.  But then there are artists who use memory of their own or others to document and explore; this is core to their work.  This is the lens through which we can approach not only the newly released biography of Derek Jarman but also a broader conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4207c884ab80d804c20bdbb631da3613 wp-block-paragraph\">A conversation about artists who treat memory, documentation, and archive not as afterthoughts, but as central to their work. To archive, in this sense, is not to preserve but to&nbsp;create. It is to recognise that the act of collecting and curating one&#8217;s own life, or the lives of others, is itself an artwork; personal, political, and often both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23abbdc176e5ce4d646d816968bc0bba wp-block-paragraph\">Take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laiaabril.com\">Laia Abril<\/a>, a Spanish visual artist and photographer based in Barcelona. You might know her from her haunting project&nbsp;&#8216;A History of Misogyny&#8217;, a powerful body of work that spans photography, video, audio, and text. It\u2019s not just visual storytelling, it\u2019s investigative journalism in artistic form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7653506c4e137eee453af99cab083449 wp-block-paragraph\">With her series &nbsp;&#8216;On Abortion&#8217;&nbsp;and&nbsp;&#8216;On Rape&#8217;, Abril doesn\u2019t merely illustrate injustice, she compiles it, layer by layer, forcing us to look at things most of us would rather ignore. Her work isn\u2019t interested in shock; it\u2019s interested in systems, how pain is perpetuated through law, silence, and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance11.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"423\" data-id=\"174346\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance11.jpg?resize=580%2C423&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance11.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance11.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance11.jpg?resize=768%2C560&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance12.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"361\" data-id=\"174347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance12.jpg?resize=580%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance12.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance12.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance12.jpg?resize=768%2C478&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-235d93ea53dd449914562de936718ddb wp-block-paragraph\">Image courtesy of the artist, Laia Abril<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0796ea48510d5a2b84feb47c117f580e wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t just view Abril\u2019s work, you feel your way through it. Her installations feel like walking through a constructed memory, one that belongs to many people at once. Visualise stepping into her archive; not as a viewer, but as a witness. She invites you to pause, to feel the quiet gravity of layered testimonies and histories once left unheard<em>.<\/em> Imagine paging through someone\u2019s diary, except this diary tells the story of a society. In her hands, the archive becomes emotional terrain; an exploration of all our humanness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b90cc68222d9b6ced01d6531bb477c40 wp-block-paragraph\">Then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anamibia\/\">Arthur Jafa<\/a>, an American filmmaker and visual artist born in Mississippi. Jafa&#8217;s work explores Black identity, power, and cultural history through found footage and experimental film. &#8216;View, Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death&#8217;, a seven-minute collage of found footage. The film captures the vast and complex spectrum of Black life in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d4ef47ca1fe98dde589bfe378f2b95ce wp-block-paragraph\">Jafa\u2019s mastery lies in how he arranges all the fragments; a protest, a dance, a smile, a police siren. His films make you feel as if you&#8217;re right there. His archive is visual jazz; pain and joy held in tension, in rhythm, in resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-id=\"174250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance3.jpg?resize=580%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tender Proof: The Archive As A Place Of Resistance\" class=\"wp-image-174250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance3.jpg?w=945&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance3.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance3.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-id=\"174251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance2.jpg?resize=580%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance2.jpg?w=945&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-02426e4d6468d945034b9ca8643ea786 wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown\u2019s enterprise, New York\/ Rome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a50d2203c644c14fa16aae01cf5ac15 wp-block-paragraph\">Jafa doesn\u2019t present an archive to be studied from a distance; as the viewer, you feel thrown into it. The pacing, the cuts, the grain; demand your presence. His work reclaims narrative power from traditional histories that have excluded or erased Black voices. Instead of offering a tidy account, Jafa gives us an emotional map, an ever-shifting constellation of what it means to live while Black and to carry the visceral memory in your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8d9961c8a34b4d32ddf491940dc35946 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Boltanski\">Christian Boltanski<\/a>, the late French conceptual artist, was known for installations that blurred the lines between memory, mourning and material presence. His work feels like museum-like setups: dim lights, old photographs and piles of used clothing, you feel yourself wandering between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7546827d490f30a68c15ec88e7372923 wp-block-paragraph\">At first glance, it seems like evidence of something, a disaster, perhaps, or a life lived and gone. But look again and you realise Boltanski is presenting not facts, but feelings. He recreates memory; its blurriness, its echoes, its weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"301\" data-id=\"174252\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance1.jpg?resize=580%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance1.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d4a54a315cbc8087dbda75a49347005a wp-block-paragraph\">In works like&nbsp;&#8216;Les Archives de C.B.&#8217;, Boltanski even archives himself. He turns his own life into an exhibit, poking at the absurdity of trying to be remembered, of hoping to leave something behind. His art asks: What will remain of us? And will it ever capture who we truly were? There\u2019s something deeply moving in that uncertainty; the fragility of legacy, the tenderness of trying anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2f13cb66a732b765a0ce77f5a0edb10f wp-block-paragraph\">And so to Derek  Jarman. A British filmmaker, painter, gardener, diarist, and activist,  he never saw his life as something to be stored neatly in drawers. His archive was always in motion: In the diaries he published during his battle with HIV, in the scratchy intimacy of his Super 8 films, in the carefully tended chaos of his garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungerness, where he lived for the last few years of his life. He made art out of fragments; not in spite of their brokenness, but because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-32911278c9e422d603a034b3daed24a5 wp-block-paragraph\">Jarman\u2019s work lives in the overlap between the deeply personal and the defiantly political. In\u00a0&#8216;Blue&#8217;, his final film, we watch nothing but a screen of the artist Yves Klein Blue (YKB) while listening to a soundscape of memories, reflections and pain. It is perhaps the most powerful example of the living archive. A man recording his decline, not for pity, but for truth. He was losing his sight to AIDS-related complications. He chose to make that loss visible.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance7-.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance7-.jpg?resize=580%2C504&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance7-.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance7-.jpg?resize=300%2C261&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance7-.jpg?resize=768%2C667&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4ed927e8c7129cae378c736481e68914 wp-block-paragraph\">Image courtesy of Allison &amp; Busby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-137c9d7d9c1029bf61a7a1f05d048945 wp-block-paragraph\">His earlier films, like\u00a0&#8216;The Last of England&#8217;, a haunting vision of post-Thatcher Britain and\u00a0&#8216;Jubilee&#8217;, a punk-fuelled time-travel odyssey through anarchy and identity, are also steeped in archival sensibility. They collage history, fantasy, anger, queerness, and punk into something both chaotic and coherent. Even his more narrative works, such as\u00a0&#8216;Caravaggio&#8217;, a sensual reimagining of the artist\u2019s life steeped in queerness and contradiction, use painterly compositions and historical layers to question how we construct memory and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22bbe51fcd374a670278c21b9147790a wp-block-paragraph\">The newly released biography,\u00a0Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography\u00a0by Tony Peake, is the first major portrait of the artist in years. What makes this biography especially vital is not just its exhaustive detail but its tone; tender, inquisitive, and completely uninterested in oversimplifying the complexities of Jarman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-373837cb3ca550f2d5753b65a14d4d3d wp-block-paragraph\">Peake\u2019s approach lets Jarman&#8217;s contradictions breathe; his boundless creativity, his passionate activism and the intimate struggles he faced are presented without gloss, embracing the fullness of his humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?resize=580%2C884&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?resize=672%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?resize=768%2C1170&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tender-Proof-The-Archive-As-A-Place-Of-Resistance6.jpg?w=985&amp;ssl=1 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6530a8580814a509b6f7a496d3c1cd96 wp-block-paragraph\">Through interviews, letters, and meticulous research, the biography itself becomes an archive of sorts, not a closing chapter but a continuation of Jarman\u2019s lifelong practice of self-documentation. The book invites readers not just to understand the artist but to engage with the cultural and political worlds he was constantly challenging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-307feddcb3fe9490886103804f134ce8 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>&#8216;Peake has given Derek Jarman the biography he deserves&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30841a895b29821ca573bcee0c0ea9f8 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.gaytimes.com\">Gay Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e448bf41e3ffa7e93290b1a5a529709a wp-block-paragraph\">In its pages, Jarman\u2019s spirit, as defiant as it is vulnerable, is preserved, not for nostalgia\u2019s sake, but as a testament to an artist who reshaped what art could be in a time of great social and personal upheaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c43da6c99255d1bf6879a7f5a036bd82 wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese concept of\u00a0wabi-sabi\u00a0holds that brokenness can be beautiful; that imperfection is not a flaw, but a form of truth. These artists, in their various mediums, show us just that. They remind us that sometimes what\u2019s most meaningful isn\u2019t the polished final piece, but the act of keeping, of noticing, of saying: This mattered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a71ae11f45ee2ce48c7c51e03be90df8 wp-block-paragraph\">Isn\u2019t that what art really is? Not a grand statement, but a gesture. A keeping. A sharing. A way of saying: I was here. Will you remember it too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d87aeed07a70bec7e78d9f43774e9edf wp-block-paragraph\">Find &#8216;Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography&#8217;&nbsp;by Tony Peake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbook.com\/9780749032906.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-19f354d5d3274ec2d6d7d73e7d2fdc98 wp-block-paragraph\">If you liked reading <em>Tender Secrets: The Powerful  Archive Of Resistance<\/em> then why not try <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/david-hockneys-astonishing-gaze-what-happens-when-you-really-look\/\">David Hockney\u2019s Astonishing Gaze: What Happens When You Really Look<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4271f5c084a393b3805c103de1116fb2 wp-block-paragraph\">.Cent Magazine London,&nbsp;<strong>Be Inspired;&nbsp;<em>Get Involved<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you feel when you come across an archive? 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