Cyanotype Exhibition & Workshop

by Naomi Duarte

Presented by KITCHEN Studios

As part of the KITCHEN Takeover, celebrating 10 years of GEMA Art Gallery,

organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services

KITCHEN Studios presents El Proceso de la Memoria, a cyanotype exhibition by artist Naomi Duarte, forming part of the KITCHEN Takeover programme celebrating the 10th anniversary of GEMA Art Gallery, organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services. The exhibition explores the fragile relationship between personal memory, collective history, and material process through the cyanotype photographic method.

Drawing from personal family archives alongside images connected to Gibraltar’s history, Duarte approaches cyanotype as both a technical and conceptual medium. Dependent on light, time, and chemical reaction, the process becomes a metaphor for memory itself shaped through exposure, altered through repetition, and marked by absence. The works are produced through experimentation on a range of surfaces and everyday objects, allowing materiality to actively influence how images are formed, degraded, and read. In revisiting both private and public histories, the work invites reflection on how narratives are inherited, obscured, and continually reinterpreted.

Alongside the exhibition, Naomi Duarte will lead a cyanotype workshop, on Thursday 18th December 2025 offering participants an introduction to the process while encouraging hands-on experimentation with found images, objects, and alternative materials. The workshop mirrors the exhibition’s ethos: slow, tactile, and process-led, privileging exploration over perfection. Find out more and book your spot at gibkitchen.com

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