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The Object Museum
The Object Museum is part of a body of work, which explores the way in which objects absorb different narratives, this is found in even the most mundane everyday objects. The objects in the museum are a range of latex cast objects, from kettles, cameras, tools and other everyday items. The common theme of the object collection is that they have lost their design purpose and are now deemed as antiques as nearly all of them hark back to a different generation. You also get a sense of the cabinet of curiosity or Wunderkammer, as The Object Museum is an on going time-capsule. This creates its own aesthetic space, an isolated escape from the outside ever-changing world.
Using the formalised style of the museum is a way of placing the objects into a familiar context with the use of the display case and grouping. Using a museology method one automatically has a system for ordering and classifying the objects, there by making them more accessible to the public. The displays comprise of a 5 foot high glass cabinet, a wall mounted display box that is 2 foot square. Also a table display cabinet and three other display boxes, each 1:1/2foot.
As in most museums The Objects Museum also has a catalogue, which comprises of all 252 objects and written information on them. Each piece has been simply line drawn, showing not just the main displays case but also every object inside. Also the objects have been numbered and under each number there is a snippet of information, giving you the insight of the people that used the objects. All of the information is fact but the context changes, as it get distorted over time in the mind. What is thought to have been fact may have been a story to start from. Also the objects come from a family home where three different generations have lived, so fact and fiction can get muddled up.
To summarise is a collection of everyday objects, showing a fragment of history and memory that is held in the objects. The objects in the museum are made out of latex and filled with flour. They are stitched together with thread, to form a fragile representation of the original. In doing this it creates an unfamiliar and ephemeral form in which a narrative can be told.
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