The Secret Museum
The Secret Museum was an exhibition that explored the poetics of hidden, untouched and curious collections from around the world in photographs and artifacts. The show was exhibited Observatory Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, 2010.
The exhibition documented untouched, hidden, and curious collections, from museum store-rooms to private collections, cabinets of curiosity to dusty natural history museums, obscure medical museums to hidden archives from around the world. The intent of the show was to document these spaces while at the same time investigating the psychology of collecting, the visual language of taxonomies, notions of "The Specimen" and the ordered archive, and the secret life of objects and collections, with an eye towards capturing the poetry, mystery and wonder of these liminal spaces.
