Covering many subjects and countries, from war to human rights issues and from cultural identity to the sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, video and
sometimes archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives integrating the participation of her subjects in her works.
Whether this happens in the form of projects dealing with real archival
material or artworks in which artists use the
archive as a theme (
sometimes even inventing
material), the idea of the
archive continues to be an undeniable force and organizing structure in exhibitions today.