Annotations to the Image

On 31 October 2026, the programme Annotations to the Image features interventions by artists Chaw Ei Thein, Isshaq Albarbary, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Haig Aivazian, Hannah Black and Nolan Oswald Dennis, tracing the material conditions and political commitments informing the works on view in the exhibition Life After Love: In Search of the Militant Image.

Across histories of militant image-making, annotations have served as instruments of transmission and political instruction; they anchor images within the crucible of struggle and allow them to acquire new meanings as they travel across space and time. An annotation can also be an interruption, an act of reorientation that unsettles what we presume to know or see. As part of the opening weekend of Life After Love: In Search of the Militant Image, participating artists revisit their contributions to the exhibition through walkthroughs, lecture presentations and readings.