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Gladys Kalichini is a contemporary visual artist and researcher from Lusaka, Zambia. Her work centres around concepts associated to history and memory. Her artistic practice is centred on reconnoitring complexities in connection to visibilities and representations of women within larger, dominant and nationalist histories. Essentially, her work is vested in engaging with atypical kinds of absences and blind spots, and reperforming acts of remembering in connection to the recalling of female historic figures such as women freedom fighters. Her multimedia artworks focus on acts of remembrance and stem from a nostalgic place to recover lost, repressed and forgotten histories. Her work draws from social practices that surround death and commemoration to create alternate memorial spaces.

For her residency at the Victorian College of Arts, Kalichini will explore the use of archival photographs in the telling of alternative perspectives of national resistance histories. Drawing from an alternative archive of archival photographs of women that she digitalised during her doctoral study, she will develop a new print series that considers the photograph not only as an archival document, but also a tool that can be employed to excavate lost memories.