The Museum is Dead
History is speckled with museums as one of the key repositories of material culture, However, in an age increasingly defined by digitalisation and calls for decentralisation, perhaps the time is nigh to abandon our acknowledgment of the museum’s monolithic centrality in defining the historicity of events and activities in human existence, so as to approach a more pluralistic understanding of our histories.
The exhibition and its works debated over the value of artworks and purpose of museums in today’s context. Watch the short video HERE to hear about the curator John Tung’s take and inspiration behind this.
The exhibition and its works debated over the value of artworks and purpose of museums in today’s context. Watch the short video HERE to hear about the curator John Tung’s take and inspiration behind this.
Red Tree, 2014
Nature and natural history are the recurring subjects in Geraldine Javier’s multi-media paintings and installations. Her works are about display, about filling the space with dead specimens and dressing them up to make them seem alive, but it is also a personal process, simultaneously emptying out and remembering. Red Tree is one of a pair of trees created by the artist reflecting the duality of life and death. While Red Tree, symbolic of life, featured seemingly blissfully sleeping birds aloft in hammocks.
Artist:
Geraldine Javier
Courtesy of:
Michelangelo & Lourdes Samson Collection
Mixed Media
218 x 155 x 76 cm
Geraldine Javier
Courtesy of:
Michelangelo & Lourdes Samson Collection
Mixed Media
218 x 155 x 76 cm