Re-presenting the Archive

I have been in conversation over the last few weeks with the archive staff at Teachers College about putting on a small exhibition in the gallery space in the library. I have put in a proposal about using some of the archive material and recontextualising it through a re-presentation of it around issues of absence and institutional memory. I have been negotiating with them about using some gilt frames that have been in the archive for about five years. The accompanying paintings are waiting to be restored. It seemed to be plain sailing until a recent e-mail questioning the "proper" use of the archive. It will be interesting to see what happens next.