My google scraper has come up with another small gem; my colleague Sam describing his co-curated exhibition “The Past from Above” which is well worth a trip to see. The artefacts in the gallery really set this show apart from a mere photography exhibition.
Sam says in the interview:
“We thought that just having images in this museum, people would have asked, “Well why do you have a photographic exhibition without any of your objects?” But also, if you put a lot of images together, that after you’ve gone around only a small section, your eyes begin to glaze over, one image after another. So the objects do actually break the show, but they also provide a context, and they’re a context to the images, rather than the other way around. Rather than, normally, we have images providing a context for objects, but in this case, if you look closely at the objects, they actually represent people or very personal items from the cultures which the images are showing.”
Watch the rest and see if it interests you; you’ll need media player for the programme to play though. Sam, for once, you got to the point quickly!
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