On Storage. Visibility Devices

Strategies for exhibiting archival documents whose content cannot be publicly revealed 2014

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Public intimacy
A private document among n public documents in the archive.

Dedications
Isolated sentences from a private conversation between a very famous artist and a museum director written in a public toilet.

Dedications
Isolated sentences from a private conversation between a very famous artist and a museum director written in a public toilet.

Sunlight Projection
Projection onto a wall with daylight of private documents.

Museums display only a small fraction of their collections. Most of their contents remain hidden in storage rooms and archives.
This project focuses on the archive of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation and on the visibility of what cannot be shown. How can a document be exhibited if its content cannot be made public?
Due to privacy policies and copyright restrictions, some archival documents cannot reveal their information in public. The following strategies use common exhibition devices to show the document while concealing its content.