The photographs taken in March 2007 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reveal more than a century of museum history, from the bourgeois palace of artifacts to the modernist white cube, to the capitalised Cultural Institute. On first reading, the title of the work may only refer to the temporary, unrecognisable state of the museum, but in fact it also questions the term "museum", and its altering meanings and intentions through a meandering societal context.
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text by Jelle Bouwhuis, 2008 |
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