Recent Acquisitions for a Museum

Laser-cut painted steel, wall brackets, numbered map pins, archival pigment prints, 67” x 78”, 2024

Recent Acquisitions for a Museum is a wall installation of silhouetted pesticide bottles that challenges museum collecting practices. Mimicking an object reference diagram, the piece uses the silhouette, a form traditionally used to quickly identify valuable objects in a museum’s collection, to question what is deemed important to acquire.  Corresponding “informational” wall labels allude to conflicts of interest and problematic donations and acquisitions.