| THESE OBJECTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED has its origin in all the visits I have done at different museums, both in Sweden and in other parts of the world. The idea took form when I in January 2002 visited The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford,England. I went there to study how they, in this very Victorian museum, organize and present the about 500 000 objects in their collection. At The Pitt Rivers Museum I ran in to a phenomena, which I and many others have seen before, an object has been removed from its show-case and being replaced by a label -"this object has been removed". What remains is a space between two objects and maybe traces in the bedding. This is a common occurrence at museums and the visitor becomes some kind of scientists or archaeologist who from limited information shall reconstruct a missing link. My interest lays in the fact that through removal an objects condition changes and it can be interpreted in a new way. |
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