Seta is interested in the ways we remember, write and embody histories. Using personal and national archives, her memory and borrowed testimonies she seeks to expose the ways national narratives are performed and constructed. Through montage, text and archiving she seeks to create museums that reverse and recollect normative patterns of knowledge. Seta is interested in a visual re-arrangement of images dealing with themes of war, cultural heritage and language. Through these re-arrangements Seta seeks to expose the constructiveness of national identity and the limits of the official historical discourses that impose themselves so violently. Working around the thresholds of the national and the quotidian, the fictional and the real, language and dialect, Seta seeks to explore what remains of a nation? How does a nation imagine itself? Herself?
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