ROYAL DIVORCE
Royal Divorce is a collective founded in 2023 that develops performative and installation-based practices using discarded images, digital archives, and amateur materials sourced from the web. Their research operates within the contemporary crisis of representation, interrogating the relationship between memory, image survival, and the construction of imaginaries in the digital age. Through performances, sound dramaturgies, and installation devices, the collective explores the hauntological potential of images and their capacity to re-emerge as unsettling presences suspended between oblivion and reactivation. The encounter between historical and digital archives generates performative landscapes in which bodies, voices, and visual fragments become tools for investigating the ontological transformations of image and collective memory. Their work frequently develops from marginal or residual materials—online comments, amateur videos, anonymous images, deteriorated sound traces—transformed into spaces of listening, activation, and shared presence. In this process, the web emerges not only as a hyper-inclusive archive but also as a performative environment capable of generating new forms of narrative, relation, and symbolic survival.