Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything must be summed up, with all the high emotion of farewell, in something so beautiful we shall never forget it. --- Michel Leiris
(vessels)
August 2014 - ongoing
1) Photographs of vessels taken in museums. (see videos below)
2) Each image is named after a Facebook friend and posted on FB on their birthday. FB as vessel, venue and calendar.
3) Link to the Facebook collection
click the word ‘(vessels)’ below:
january 2015, october 2014 (click here for more videos)
Images are also collected in books, one for each month:
2016
january
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august
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october
november
december
(vessels)
Facebook as a site for longing.
The images interrupt the busy flux and noise of timelines for an instant of silence: mysterious, introspective still-lives of vessels in museum collections. each specifically named.
I name each after a friend on Facebook on their birthday (and post the image on their Timeline). They become a calendar of times past, of love. this naming strategy is a funnel for the thousands of images in my archive, dripping each day, one day gained, another lost.
Vessels are a basic need. Every culture in every age develops those utensils and inscribes into them their worldviews. That is why they are used to date archeological sites. Fossils of their former utilitarian lives, they are the black boxes of society.
This series documents them through museums around the world. There are the very old ones (pre-historic even), the everyday ones, the ritual ones, the ornate and the purely functional. They are chosen for their idiosyncrasies, for their visual presence, for their capacity to hold a universe in their self-absorption. More often than not in their original contexts, the busy shelves of museums, they are hidden in plain sight, invisible in the palaces of looking. Isolated though, they sing.
vessels, 2014-ongoing
Greece
Kerameikos Museum, Athens
Archeological Museum, Olympia
Benaki Museum Of Islamic Art, Athens
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
The Benaki Museum, Athens
National Archeological Museum, Athens
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Museum Of Prehistoric Thera, Fira, Santorini
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Historical Museum of Crete. Heraklion
archeological museum Fira, Santorini.
Akrotiri Prehistoric Town Archeological site, Santorini
Archeological Museum, Chania.
Austria
Albertina Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
Russia
The Hermitage, St Petersburg
Armenia
Erebuni Historial & Archaeological Culture Preserve, Yerevan
Turkey
Istanbul Archeological Museum
Museum Of Turkish And Islamic Art, Istanbul
Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul
Kocaeli Müzesi, Izmit
Imperial Pavillion museum, Izmit
Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Istanbul
England
Manchester Art Gallery
The Wallace Collection. London
British Museum, London
Germany
Musée ethnologique de Berlin
Altes Museum, Berlin
Bröhan-Museum, Berlin
Egyptian Museum, Berlin
Ägyptisches Museum München, Munich
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich
Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Belgium
Art & History Museum, Brussels
Old St. John's Hospital, Gent
M. M van Museum, Leuven
the Netherlands
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
France
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Portugal
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Palácio da Pena, Cascais
Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon
Museu de São Roque, Lisbon
Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon
Museu do Oriente, Lisbon
FRESS Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva, Lisbon
Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon
Palácio Nacional de Mafra
Museu de Évora
Palace of Queluz.
Palácio Pimenta, Lisbon
Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon
Palace of Sintra
Tesouro da Misericórdia, Viseu
Museu Nacional Grão Vasco, Viseu
Museu de Lamego
Museu Soares dos Reis, Porto
Museu Romântico do Porto
MMIPO - Museu e Igreja da Misericórdia do Porto
Church of São Francisco, Porto
Museu Arqueológico do Carmo, Lisboa
Museu de Arte Popular, Lisbon
Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisboa
Museu Nacional Machado de Castro, Coimbra
U.S.A.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
The Met Cloisters, NYC
Brooklyn Museum, NYC
American Museum of Natural History, NYC
Winter Antiques Show, NYC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
National Gallery of Art, Washington
National Museum of The American Indian, NYC
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
New-York Historical Society
The Jewish Museum, NYC
Art Institute, Chicago
Snite Museum of Art, South Bend IN
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield
Montclair Art Museum, Mountclair
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Penn Museum, Philadelphia
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford
Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Italy
Palermo Cathedral
Museo Mandralisca, Cefalu
Museo Archeologico Regionale, Agrigento
Palazzo Mirto., Palermo
Museo G. Whitaker, Mozia
Palazzo Della Zisa, Palermo
Museo Diocesano di Palermo (MuDiPa)
Galleria di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, Syracuse
Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio Calabria
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
San Lorenzo, Florence.
Firenze Santa Maria Novella, Florence
National Archaeological Museum, Florence
Museo Degli Argenti, Florence
Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence
Museo Nazionale Di Palazzo Bellomo. Syracuse
Palazzo Chiablese, Turin
Palazzo Madama, Turin
Museo Antichità, Turin
Museo Egizio, Turin
Palazzo Reale, Turin
Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna
Museo Egizio, Bologna
Museo di storia naturale sezione di antropologia ed etnologia, Florence
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
Museo Archeologico di Napoli, Naples
Palazzo Bianco, Genova
Museo di Palazzo Reale, Genova
Museo nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca
Mexico
Museo de Sitio de la Cultura Teotihuacana
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, DF
Museo Soumaya, DF
Museo Del Templo Mayor, Centro Histórico De La Ciudad De Mexico
Museo Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli, DF
Museo Nacional de Antropología, DF
Spain
Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España, Madrid
Museo de América, Madrid
Museum of Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
Iglesia De El Salvador Sevilla
Museo Bellver
Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla
Hospital de los Venerables, Sevilla
Antiquarium Sevilla
Real Alcázar de Sevilla
Palace of the Countess of Lebrija, Sevilla
Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla
GVA Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia
Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias "González Martí", Valencia
Morocco
Marrakech Museum
Musee Dar Si Said, Marrakech
Musée Nejjarine des Arts et Métiers du Bois, Fez
Musée de la Fondation Abderrahman Slaoui, Casablanca
Musée De Cinéma, Ouarzazate
Musee Tiskiwin, Marrakech
Brasil
Museu Do Açude, Rio de Janeiro
Palácio Do Catete - Museu Da República, Rio de Janeiro
Museu do Folclore Edison Carneiro, Rio de Janeiro
Museu das Culturas Dom Bosco, Campo Grande
Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro
MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Museu Solar Monjardim, Vitória
Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo
Chile
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago
Korea
National Museum of Korea, Seoul
Argentina
Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco