Marina Xenofontos’ work employs film and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalisation of personal narratives in civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow for a remembrance of symbols and errors in their functions. Within this approach, traditional methods and processes embrace the ephemeral individual position within broader collective memory. In order to unravel the mechanisms of canonical representations, Xenofontos researches vernacular processes related to architectural forms and biographical sociopolitical contexts. Power structures of civic spaces are reimagined via an exploration of anecdotal stories and coincidental epitomes that represent sardonic reflections on mechanisms of production and understandings of history.