Sarah Carne: Womens Museum x Film London

As part of Womens Museum x Film London Programme 2026, the artist Sraha Carne has programmed a series of four short films.
About this Event

As part of Womens Museum x Film London Programme 2026, the artist Sarah Carne has programmed a series of short films which respond to the curatorial theme of Materiality of Memory. Specifically the four films together pull on themes across the exhibition around archives and objects.

Holly Antrum: Yes to the work! : the women's art library.

Sarah Carne: I'm Looking for Barbara

I love my Yugo

Helen Kilbride: Looking for Barbara

In Holly Antrum’s film Women’s Art Library curator Althea Greenan is in conversation with artists and researchers as they consider objects in the collection and relationships across its history. Sarah Carne, as a long time collaborator, appears briefly and is again present in her own films.

At the National Irish Visual Arts Library she discovers the collectors who gather evidence of artists’ careers and considers those who aren’t collected; whilst on a road trip to Serbia in an inherited Yugo she finds a community of drivers, connected by the much maligned but also much loved vehicle.

Helen Kilbride's Looking for Barbara is a short documentary essay which explores the role and significance of the queer personal archive especially for those excluded from official archives.

Biography

Sarah Carne’s practice is concerned with the visibility, status and perceived value of people, objects and labour and in considering how these are assigned and ranked.

Of particular interest are age, gender and how society is structured to privilege those who can manifest confidence. She uses text, video, photography and conversation to question the metrics and language that serve as barriers, and to map and form connections.

She was recently appointed by UCL Public Art as part of the UCL200 Public Art Programme. Her research for the commission involves her talking to people associated with the university who are in the 56-60 age bracket. As a 59 year old artist she is interested in the nuances and tensions that her age group encounter.