A Monument to the Unknown Object





Installation view at المتحف/Museet/The Museum/, Malmö Konstmuseum. 2017

Crates; MDF box; Dust collected from the museum’s metal conservation studio, textile collection, handcraft collection, historical objects and archeological conservation studio. Variable dimensions. 2017

A Monument to the Unknown Object [    -2017] Invited by the Malmö Kunstmuseum to develop a project based on its collection, I realized that certain simple, yet essential, procedures vital to the functioning of any art institution often go unnoticed. Upon learning that objects entering the museum’s collection are vacuumed, it was requested that the technicians preserve the dust and other debris resulting from the cleaning process. Directly extracted from the vacuum, the dust was compacted, framed, and placed inside a box—constructed from old temporary walls of the museum itself. The box serves a dual purpose: it not only contains and stores the dust but also acts as its exhibition device. As if the history of all the objects that have been, or are, part of this collection is contained within it— a monument to the unknown object.