Chipboard
Interesting use of chipboard as a material for building museum displays. Not only is it used, unfaced and at possibly to great a thickness (~15mm), it is also used to create non-display elements, such as the doorways, shown.
There’s no direct interpretation of these doorways, that it’s assumed you should step through, in the temporary exhibition of 200 years of Slovene encounters with Chinese culture (which in itself is an obscure enough subject for an exhibition display).
It was a fair enough subject, nonetheless, to examine the changing and constant nature of the state of ‘otherness’ of a culture that is not your own, especially when mediated through the lens of not being Slovenian, only european.
I compared this with Erika Tan’s exhibition, or possibly artwork, at Brighton Museum, for a mediation of an ethnographical museum display. She added, replaced, and inserted objects within the existing museum display. All these objects were, or seemed to be of Chinese origin and had their own interpretive labelling - still in a museum style, but differentiated from the standard labelling.
“Encountering China: 200 Years of Slovene Experience of Chinese Culture”
31th August 2006 - 3rd September 2007
Slovenski etnografski muzej, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
