Home Museum
Lagos Photo Festival - Nigeria 2020 https://www.homemuseum.net
Participation in the exhibition Home Museum, Lagos Photo Festival: «Rapid Response Restitution» tells a decolonial «citizens' story» and raises the question of restitution. Concept developed by Azu Nwagbogu and Dr Clémentine Deliss.
The Home Museum is a model for a new kind of civic institution where every member of society can contribute to the collective perception of cultural values and address issues of restitution directly and without delay. This is achieved through the democratic medium of photography. The Home Museum is a digital platform where visitors are invited to enter a new infrastructure designed by the artists' and researchers' cooperative. Navigation is left to chance; visitors can wander through the visuals, sense the photographs and discover the poetics of the individuals' texts. Alternatively, friends and the artists' contacts can be found there by users combining different entries into a personal assemblage.
The texts written by each artist for the Home Museum are personal, often thoughtfully worded testimonies that transcend any museum label or photo caption. Together, texts and images reveal the memories and realities of domestic life as a melting pot that crosses all categories and ages.
The Home Museum is a model for a new kind of civic institution where every member of society can contribute to the collective perception of cultural values and address issues of restitution directly and without delay. This is achieved through the democratic medium of photography. The Home Museum is a digital platform where visitors are invited to enter a new infrastructure designed by the artists' and researchers' cooperative. Navigation is left to chance; visitors can wander through the visuals, sense the photographs and discover the poetics of the individuals' texts. Alternatively, friends and the artists' contacts can be found there by users combining different entries into a personal assemblage.
The texts written by each artist for the Home Museum are personal, often thoughtfully worded testimonies that transcend any museum label or photo caption. Together, texts and images reveal the memories and realities of domestic life as a melting pot that crosses all categories and ages.
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