Visiting Artist works with the Ethnography Collections
Last week we were happy to welcome Alyona Larionova to spend some time in the Ethnography Collections. Larionova has just finished a postgraduate degree in Fine Art at the Slade and is developing a new project.
She writes of her latest project:
‘The Changing Mind of Present (2014 – ongoing) brings into question the very basic views we have on objects that surround us. What of our past do we preserve and what we reject; what we collect and what collection are we part of? Is the nature of this relationship is that of love and obsession or that of fear and animosity?This work looks into the way the collections are created and preserved in the age of ever expanding digital technologies and ‘de-materialisation’. It can be seen as an attempt to understand what objects we admit into our immediate future. The film draws a parallel between the future of any cultural object and that of any individual, both of which are terrifyingly uncertain’.