The 2024-2025 undergraduate thesis cohort in Visual Studies presents their work in As the Archive Dreams. The exhibition posits the archive as a living network—an assemblage of memories and stories and objects that transcends time. It tends to the roots of the archive not as a static repository, but as a dynamic apparatus of preservation and transformation. The works within the exhibition draw upon personal histories, cultural narratives, communal knowledges, and proverbial legacies to reinterpret processes of remembrance and renewal. Visitors are invited to engage in the archival process, witnessing and contributing to ever-evolving temporal narratives that situate the archive as both a keeper of the past and an active participant in the present and the future. Here, as the archive dreams, it stands as testimonial to action, transformation, and the enduring power of memory; it is imbued with life. 

View the exhibition at Foy House for a limited time (April 17-19) and learn more about the student work online: academic.daniels.utoronto.ca/visual-studies-thesis-2025.