collection d’un amateur
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13 plywood boxes containing found objects from Morocco | 2013 | 45 x 33 x 9 cm to 22.5 x 16 x 7 cm | Image: Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat (2013)
The starting point for this work was a display case created in Merzouga, Morocco, containing an arrangement of collected rocks and fossils entitled collection de fossiles âgés de 500 millions à 700 millions d’années. The anonymity of the creator of this carefully arranged collection throws up parallels with the essential nature of ethnographic artefacts, since even today ethnographica represent territorially defined objects: collectors’ items referred to primarily by the name of the owner/collector rather than that of the manufacturer/creator, and therefore different from signed and authorised objects traded on the art market.
The display cases in the mobile exhibition BINATNA/about traces were designed in such a way that the objects could be both displayed representatively and transported safely.