My MuseuM

“I realised that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”

-Orhan Pamuk, “The Museum of Innocence”

This exhibition has been cultivated through the slow work of observing and discreetly collecting items from someone very close to me. This process has been a nurturing of an intense fascination with another's 'mundane’ life and transforming their discarded scraps into art, something that becomes almost worshipped (by me at least). 

My initial deep attachment came from my reading of the novel “The Museum of Innocence” by Orhan Pamuk. A depiction of longing, devotion, and adoration from afar. Completely inspired by the behaviour exhibited in the novel, I became enticed by the notion of collecting remnants and allowing myself to hold someone so dear without their acknowledgment. This uncanny closeness has manifested itself into an obsession of observation. Driven by a yearning to immerse myself in another’s life without want or need for communication or formality. Gathered here is that which I hold dearest from this ritual.

Credits

Cultivated and researched by: Martha MacMillan | Mentor: Femke Gyselinck | Co-mentors: Alice Bröker, Beau De Lathouwer, Guillem Salmerón, Laura Murariu, Mimbi Lubansu and Thaïmee Samut | Thank you for the advice and input of: Jacob Bousset, Rozálie Stárová, Rünno Tammela | Inspiration: Orhan Pamuk, Kemal and Füsan of “The Musuem of Innocence” | A special thank you to: The person who I have been stalking and who made this piece possible